This is one of the first times that I know of that the Linux kernel and Windows kernel developers discussed a security issue together directly. So while the fi

This is one of the first times that I know of that the Linux kernel and Windows kernel developers discussed a security issue together directly. So while the fix was much simpler than Meltdown/Spectre was (Linux was fixed with a patch that was written in 2015) overall, the communication between different OS kernel developers right now is very good. And yes, it is all due to the horrible Meltdown/Spectre problem and how that was handled. We were not allowed to work together for that problem, and we do not want to that to happen again.