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

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

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

In a nutshell: Device drivers are a cornerstone of modern computing and a critical component of any properly functioning Windows machine. However, navigating the complex Windows driver ecosystem often ...

Automatic driver rollback: Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery will let Microsoft remotely restore faulty Windows Update drivers to a known-good version without user or OEM action. GPU downgrade fix: A ...

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

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 ...

A new feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery will remotely revert problematic drivers without any manual intervention ...

Automatic driver fix: Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery will let Microsoft remotely roll back faulty drivers to a known-good ...

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 ...