Note: Intel(R) Chipset Device Software uses an unusual dateįor the devices it is targeting. Within this INTEL readme we can read for chipset driver: Question: Have such updates been offered to any of you?Īddendum: It's a feature, as a German blog reader pointed out. Seems strange, this behavior. This is not the first case, in the German blog post Windows 7/8.1 und die optionalen INTEL System-Treiber-Updates I had already reported something like this in 2016. Updates were last checked (automatically) today at 12:18 PM CT.

Why is Windows 10 Update trying to install Surface System 1.0.104.0 and Surface Keyboard 1.0.104.0 on my Dell laptop (Dell Latitude E6420)? It's showing that the update status is pending install. Because the OEM drivers were also delivered with a lower major version.Īddendum: There is also a Microsoft Answers forum post, where a user claims the following: As a reason for the old dates for the drivers, the user states that they want to make sure that the drivers now offered are not installed over the OEM drivers. And Microsoft has adopted this in Windows Update. A user writes on Twitter that Intel seems to have changed its policy regarding driver updates for OEM computers. They are all INTEL drivers, but according to Bowman they do not fit on the machines.

One driver is dated 1968 and one in 1970 (INTEL system driver). Intel – Other hardware – Mobile 6th/7th Generation Intel (R) Processor Family … On all systems, old and unsuitable driver updates suddenly appear as optional updates under Windows Update. These systems all run with Windows 10, but are not in the Windows Insider program.

In the respective Tweet (just click on it) she writes that it is PCs from Dell, ASUS, HP. Colleague Barb Bowman made this strange observation and documented it by a screenshot on Twitter.

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