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Microsoft
Windows 11 users are not happy campers astatine nan infinitesimal for aggregate reasons, but Microsoft is doing thing astir an rumor astir updates. The institution conscionable introduced "Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery" (let's telephone it CIDR) for Windows Update, a strategy that will rotation backmost faulty drivers detected during nan company's shiproom information process, pinch nary personification involution required.
Microsoft noted that faulty drivers installed done Windows Update tin only beryllium dealt pinch presently by its partners aliases nan extremity user, which is evidently not ideal. "With [CIDR], Microsoft tin now trigger a betterment action straight from nan Hardware Dev Center (HDC), rolling backmost a problematic driver to nan antecedently known-good type via nan Windows Update pipeline," nan institution said. "Partners are not required to return immoderate action. Microsoft handles nan betterment end-to-end."
Driver updates for definite hardware for illustration GPUs person caused issues pinch Windows Updates for years, pinch nan NVIDIA "Nvlddmkm.sys" driver error being 1 of nan astir celebrated examples. Microsoft's CIDR strategy should thief pinch that to a definite extent, and should commencement gradually rolling retired successful September. Microsoft is besides giving users much power complete updates, letting you region and skip updates and shutdown aliases restart your PC without needing to instal them.
At nan aforesaid time, Microsoft is trying to make judge specified driver problems don't hap successful nan first spot pinch its caller Driver Quality Initiative (DQI). At it's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC 2026), nan institution said it's "heavily investing" successful hardening kernel mode drivers for higher security, reliability and resiliency. It's besides introducing stronger partner verification for trusted drivers, improving lifecycle guidance and expanding value measures.
