Video from Microsoft's Ignite Event about patching Azure to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown bugs<p><a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Ignite-Content-2019/Spectre-Meltdown-An-Azure-retrospective/m-p/946375" rel="nofollow">https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Ignite-Cont...</a><p>The registers description of the linked video:<p>>The session was unusual. The main part was a video describing the build-up to the Spectre and Meltdown reveal in January 2018. The specific problem was discovered by Google's Project Zero in June 2017, but was kept under embargo for six months. Microsoft was among those companies in the know, furiously patching Windows and its Azure platform, before the embargo on disclosure lifted on 10 January 2018. Open-source systems like Linux are patched in the open, though, and changes to the kernel, along with industry sources, tipped off The Register.<p><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/12/spectre_meltdown_microsoft_azure/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/12/spectre_meltdown_mi...</a>