Microsoft's new Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery automatically rolls back buggy Windows drivers
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Forward-looking: Microsoft has announced a new Windows feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery that will automatically roll back problematic drivers distributed via Windows Update. The automated process will replace the buggy driver with either the previous version installed on the system or the latest stable version available on Windows Update.
According to an official Microsoft blog post, the cloud-based recovery process will be initiated if a driver is identified as problematic during evaluation. In such cases, the company will reject publishing requests for said driver before replacing it with the next best available version. The process will not be initiated if a Shiproom-approved version cannot be located.
The fully automated technology will be handled by the company's Hardware Dev Center (HDC) Driver Shiproom through coordinated updates to the PnP driver stack and the...
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