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Great. Windows updates will now be able to brick the hardware.

• jrs95 8y ago
  This is something that has been used for Surface products for a long time and it hasn't been an issue as far as I know.
  • cheapgeek 8y ago
    https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3068312/microsoft-starts-replacing-borked-surface-pro-4-devices https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3068312/microsoft-...
  • AlphaSite 8y ago
    This is because surface ironically has quite a small testing surface. All hardware from all PC manufacturers is much harder to validate.
• jedieaston 8y ago
  I mean, you've been able to brick hardware on Linux before in earlier versions of the kernel, where the firmware would get mounted, causing the user to blow away parts of their firmware when they wiped their drive (figuring it was just a recovery partition). Relevant Ubuntu bug report from when it was happening: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147
  • throwmeback 8y ago
    that's genuinely hilarious in hindsight
• protomyth 8y ago
  Apple did firmware updates as part of their OS updates [edit: on Mac], and they did fairly well although I seem to remember one update that did something nasty to one set of machines.
• morpheuskafka 8y ago
  They've always had firmware updates for PCs and I'd rather have an industry wide open source solution that individual OEMs. Just recently Lenovo messed up flashing a TB chip firmware and bricked several high end notebooks.