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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by dmix on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:08PM (#16693660)
Yet it didn't take 1000 of them to fix it on other OSes. Why are we even debating 1000 devs anyway? That is hardly the point and throwing more and more bodies at a programming problem is hardly ever a solution, nor one I proposed in my original comment.

It's ultimately a matter of talent, resources, and proper management. Which is hardly an insurmountable problem for a major tech company which decades of experience solving world-is-ending bugs.

Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by chris_wot on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:03PM (#16693953)
I put it down to lack of openness to a wider review than just Microsoft engineers.