Microsoft is patching but the patch is Bricking computers running older Athlon cpus
Microsoft, except for their Surface offerings, only can do operating system patches rather than hardware patching. They are working with the hardware OEMs (Intel, AMD) to provide comprehensive software patching, but understand this is only within the OS, not the chipset or cpu.
And it isn’t bricked as long as you create a system restore point, which is the default in Windows 7 and up. So IF the restore points are not turned off, they system should be recoverable.
Now if hardware patching is being directly applied to the mainboard (CMOS or BIOS upgrade/update), that would be another story, and outside of the Microsoft update realm.
That might tend to piss some users off................