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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Hardware updates would be incredibly noticeable. You can tell because of the way (strange?) people are in the room rummaging around in the casing and swapping stuff in and out.
... or did you mean firmware updates?
Those tend to be software-based too, the key point being that you still have to download it (it doesn't happen through osmosis), and something has to be checking for them.
Generally firmware updates get downloaded from the manufacturer's website manually, yes? Why would they be manifesting as an update notification?
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I think He means hardware device driver updates, as in updates to the device drivers for installed hardware. I am reasonably certain, as he owns a Surface tablet, that he was talking about the many, and well advertised deficiencies in the way the hardware functions. Notably devices such as wireless AC did not always connect or the video controller overheats, or the dock ports stop functioning or supplying power to the tablet.
They manifest as an update notification because Microsoft is updating them.
Pretty sure this is not generally the reason for updates, but even if it were I see it as no more urgent than any other.
Helen