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Microsoft Issues New Windows 10 Update Warning
Gordon Kelly Senior Contributor
Consumer Tech
I write about technology’s biggest companies
Windows 10 is finally getting the
update we all wanted, but until it rolls out widely users are going to need to keep paying attention to Microsoft’s
regular upgrade warnings. And they have struck again.
Picked up by
CNet, Microsoft has confirmed it has found updates to Windows 10’s built-in
Control Flow Guard (CFG) security feature which can cause massive performance issues for Google
Chromium-based browsers (such as Chrome, Microsoft’s Edge browser, Vivaldi and
many others). The problem was first identified by
Vivaldi then replicated by
Google, after which Microsoft acknowledged the issue.
How massive is massive? Tests on impacted Windows 10 PCs found Chromium performance runs 3-4x slower on average than on Windows 7, which is not affected by the issue. . . .
. . . Until then, Windows 10 users face an all too familiar situation: feeling like test subjects . . .
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