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Microsoft will use Google’s Retpoline to mitigate Spectre in Windows 10

MICROSOFT HAS ANNOUNCED plans to speed up Windows 10 in the wake of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that caused such a fracas last year.

Because the gruesome twosome were sitting ducks at a hardware kernel level, software fixes that tended to have a negative effect on the performance of devices – in extreme cases as much as 30 per cent.

Microsoft looks to be rolling out a more effective fix for Spectre with no impact on system resources, and once again, following the decision to move its Edge browser to Google’s Chromium engine, Redmond is about to get back into bed with the Big G.

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