Microsoft adds automatic driver rollbacks to Windows Update (opens in new tab)

Microsoft is adding Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery to Windows Update, a feature that lets the company remotely roll back faulty drivers distributed through Windows Update to a known-good version without manual action from users or hardware partners. Microsoft said the feature is intended to reduce the time Windows devices remain on low-quality drivers after a problematic release is identified. Under the current process Microsoft described, hardware partners must release an updated driver, or...