Intel was far from demolished when AMD’s Bulldozer came to town. Users still clung to hope that Microsoft’s Windows 7 was not optimized to take advantage of Bulldozer’s multi-core environment. Vindication came sweetly with a knowledge base article and a patch from Microsoft confirming the issue and offering a solution. While they can still feel comfortable knowing they were right, the solution has been pulled from Microsoft’s website without any announced reason. Who should we feel sorry for: those who didn’t download it yet, or those who did?

This picture is more meme-worthy than we realized…
99 hotfix and ah this ain’t one? If you’re having kernel problems I feel bad for you son.

 

To be entirely fair, Microsoft’s knowledge base article was quite clear in its instruction to users regarding this hotfix.

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problem described in this article. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

Still, AMD users have another reason to be upset as if they needed one. The hotfix will come, and will come in completely stable form; it just looks like today is not that day. If you already received this update and have experienced technical difficulties, the comment form awaits.