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fromtheregister
1 week ago

Microsoft puts stability in the driver's seat with new initiative

Driver Quality Initiative targets kernel driver reliability through architecture changes, trust requirements, lifecycle cleanup, and quality metrics beyond crash counts.
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DevOps
fromEngadget
1 week ago

Windows Update will soon revert problematic drivers automatically - Engadget

Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery rolls back faulty drivers detected during evaluation via Windows Update without user action, while adding controls and improving driver quality.
Tech industry
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers

Windows 11 will gain automatic driver rollback via Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery and more flexible, less disruptive update controls.
DevOps
fromEngadget
1 week ago

Windows Update will soon revert problematic drivers automatically - Engadget

Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery rolls back faulty drivers detected during evaluation via Windows Update without user action, while adding controls and improving driver quality.
Tech industry
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers

Windows 11 will gain automatic driver rollback via Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery and more flexible, less disruptive update controls.
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Software development
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

Windows Update is getting better at saving your PC from buggy drivers

Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery enables Microsoft to automatically roll back problematic drivers from the cloud without user or hardware partner intervention.
fromComputerWeekly.com
5 months ago

Top 10 end user computing stories of 2025 | Computer Weekly

The biggest event of 2025 in the PC market has been the end of support for Windows 10. It was positioned as the last major release of the Windows operating system, which would be kept updated by over-the-air Windows updates. But when Windows 11 was launched in 2021, Microsoft set the date for the end of support for Windows 10 - October 5, 2025.
Information security
fromThe Verge
8 months ago

I called the MSI Claw an embarrassment, so imagine my surprise: its successor is the best Windows handheld yet

I wrote that no one should buy MSI and Intel's original handheld gaming PC. I literally called it an embarrassment, and the company blacklisted me after that. MSI stopped pitching me news, and stopped answering my emails, even after the company began to write off its dud of a handheld. So you can imagine my surprise to find: MSI and Intel have gone from worst to nearly first.
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