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

Experts sometimes talk about fixing Windows updates. I only understood why when an automatic background update wiped out my audio configuration. A configuration that had taken a lot of fine-tuning was ...

I also reclaimed some storage space in the process.

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

Microsoft fixed a Windows Update issue that installed drivers despite blocked policies due to a caching service ...