Meltdown and Spectre bug fixes slow down your machines: Microsoft

Microsoft said that the software patches released by the company to guard against the Meltdown and Spectre bugs slowed down the performance of some of the personal computers and servers.

In the company's support blog, Windows executive Vice President, Terry Myerson said that it was working with AMD to resolve the issue and would resume Windows operating system software updates to affected AMD devices via its Windows Update process as soon as possible.

Microsoft said in a statement, "To prevent AMD customers from getting into an unbootable state, Microsoft will temporarily pause sending the following Windows operating system updates to devices with impacted AMD processors at this time."

The software giant said the patches had caused computer screens to freeze up, or have so-called “blue screen errors” on Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.

Windows 7 and Windows 8 were the worst hit operating systems since the older operating systems have features like kernel-level font rendering that will be impacted by the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations even further than Windows 10.

Intel and AMD have not disclosed the number of chips affected by the security flaw. Microsoft said that it is working with AMD to resolve the issue.