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 ...

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Microsoft is making Windows Update a lot less disruptive. Microsoft is making Windows Update a lot less disruptive. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

PCWorld reports Microsoft’s new Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery will automatically roll back faulty drivers installed through Windows Update to previously stable versions. This feature eliminates the ...

Hardware driver updates can be a blessing and a curse. When they’re good, they can fix bugs, improve performance, and add new capabilities, giving your PC a minor upgrade without requiring any extra ...

Driver Slop: Windows users have known for some time that Windows Update can break quite a few things, including the performance and reliability of modern GPU hardware. Microsoft is trying to mitigate ...

NVIDIA is pushing out an out-of-band GPU driver update to resolve an issue introduced with Microsoft's October 2025 update for Windows 11 (KB5066835). According to NVIDIA, the Windows 11 update can ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft fixed an issue that caused some Windows devices to install driver updates without notice despite policies configured to prevent auto-updates. In an admin center incident report ...

Microsoft is introducing a new capability that will allow it to remotely roll back problematic Windows drivers delivered through Windows Update. Called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, the new feature ...