I have a friendly uhd drive and I seem to remember at the time the discussion about windows deciding to update firmware wasn't a concern and so far it hasn't touched my drive. Been seeing a few articles that Microsoft are going to get more aggressive with their auto firmware updates. Anything to worry about? Any steps to take to prevent this? I'd hate to suddenly find Microsoft have updated my friendly firmware and prevented it from working in a friendly way.
Driver updates aren't the same thing as drive firmware. Those are 2 completely different things. Drivers: software that tells windows how to interact with the specific piece of hardware (in this case for example an optical drive) Firmware: A piece of software ON THE DRIVE ITSELF! that tells the drive which optical discs are supported, what speeds it can burn them... Windows cannot update drive firmware (if James is right and it can for some reason), it never will. First they'd have to figure out if a computer even has optical drives (care to guess how many there are in the world), then they'd have to figure out what specific model every drive is (complicated by the fact that certain models get a new version but same model name), then they'd have to figure out what firmware each drive is running. Once they're done with all that they'd have to check if there is a newer firmware for every drive in the computer, and multiply that for every computer in the world. Then they'd have to push it, on top of that if they did it, THEY would be responsible if their pushed update breaks the drive or removed functionality the drive owner was using. That will never happen. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk
To say that it's impossible is definitely wrong. It's very much possible for windows to update firmware on a device. They're not doing so right now but it most definitely can be done. And not just for drives, either. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk
This was previously discussed in the forums. You may not like the idea, Ch3vr0n, but it's entirely doable through Windows Update if they decided to do it along with the manufacturer. Microsoft lays it out in their own documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...updating-device-firmware-using-windows-update . Whether or not Microsoft will take that step is another story.
Well I guess it is possible then, though I doubt they themselves will do it on their own, I assume among other reasons for the ones I posted in my previous post. It's the product manufacturers themselves that would need to push this through windows. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk
you need to read those images again, and the topic title. Your images are talking about device DRIVERS (how windows interacts with a device), NOT about drive FIRMWARE. Drivers arent the same thing as firmware.
