• Microsoft promises firmware patches for Surface devices to nullify Meltdown and Spectre

    Posted on January 4, 2018 at 20:19 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    There’s a new post out from the Surface team: Surface Guidance for Customers and Partners: Protect your devices against the recent chip-related security vulnerability. It says:

    Microsoft will provide UEFI updates for the following devices:

    Surface Pro 3
    Surface Pro 4
    Surface Book
    Surface Studio
    Surface Pro Model 1796
    Surface Laptop
    Surface Pro with LTE Advanced
    Surface Book 2

    The updates will be available for the above devices running Windows 10 Creators Update (OS version 15063) and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (OS version 16299). You will be able to receive these updates through Windows Update or by visiting the Microsoft Download Center.

    Apparently if you aren’t running Win10 1703 or 1709, you’re out of luck.

    Annoyingly, the post speaks in the future tense. I don’t see any notice of availability on the official release pages for those devices. (See, for example, the Surface Pro 2017 page, which lists the last firmware/driver update as Dec. 6.) I also don’t see any of the patches in the Update Catalog.

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