Microsoft is testing Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, a Windows Update feature designed to roll back bad drivers with less manual IT work.

New 'Driver Quality Initiative' aims to shore up quality and prevent bad drivers from proving to be an unnecessary battery ...

Microsoft has quietly confirmed that Windows Update has been downgrading user-installed graphics drivers, but it's being ...

It sucks when a failing battery or a slow PC lets you down at crucial moments—and Windows 11 in particular has repeatedly ...

Microsoft plans to raise the quality bar of Windows 11 drivers, as drivers "sit at the heart of every Windows experience" and ...

The company is also trying to prevent driver problems before they happen with a new initiative.

When a driver published to Windows Update is found to have a problem, your PC will still look for an updated version of the driver instead. If it can’t find one, that’s when C ...

Microsoft is changing Windows graphics driver targeting to reduce GPU driver downgrades and broken updates through Windows ...

Microsoft is introducing Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery to automatically remove faulty drivers from Windows systems. The ...

Microsoft is developing a new cloud-managed recovery system for Windows that can automatically detect and remove problematic hardware drivers distributed through Windows Update.

The process applies to drivers distributed through Windows Update. Microsoft's partners can use the Windows Update service to ...

Forward-looking: Microsoft has traditionally maintained strong backward compatibility with older hardware and software. However, the company is now working to phase out as many legacy drivers as ...