"Microsoft has created a new “Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery” feature that can replace a faulty driver installed on a PC with a previously working driver through Windows Update. Right now, Windows 11 users have to manually roll back a driver or hardware vendors have to publish a new one to work around any problems, but this new feature aims to make this process automatic."
"“When a driver is identified as having quality issues during our shiproom evaluation process, Microsoft can now initiate a recovery action from the cloud, replacing the problematic driver on affected devices without requiring manual intervention from the user or the hardware partner,” explains Garrett Duchesne, principal program manager at Microsoft."
"This new Windows Update is currently being tested with Microsoft's hardware partners and should start gradually rolling out in September. Microsoft is also making Windows updates less disruptive, with the ability to extend a pause date as many times as you need, skip updates during initial device setup, and restart or shutdown a PC without having to install a pending update."
Windows 11 is receiving improvements to Windows Update, including indefinite pausing and reduced disruption during device setup and restarts. A new Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery feature will automatically replace a problematic driver installed through Windows Update with a previously working version. The recovery can be initiated from the cloud when a driver is identified as having quality issues during Microsoft’s shiproom evaluation process. This replacement is intended to occur without requiring user action or new driver releases from hardware partners. The feature is being tested with Microsoft’s hardware partners and is planned for gradual rollout starting in September. Additional update changes include extending pause dates multiple times and skipping updates during initial device setup.
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