Microsoft Will Soon Start Bundling Drivers With Windows Store Games (thurrott.com)

Microsoft will start bundling drivers with Windows Store games to improve the performance of the game once downloaded. A report on Thurrott adds: This will work by the game download trigging Windows Update to acquire the minimum driver requirements to make sure that application works as intended. This may perturb some users who like having complete control over the driver updates for their hardware as this auto-download mechanism will overwrite the existing installation of the driver. Of course, you can still roll-back the update but hopefully Microsoft gives us a way to stop the auto-download of the driver via the Windows Store when this feature arrives.

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Shamus Young Tried It

[Kunedog]

Two great articles by Shamus Young show just what a trainwreck the Windows Store is:

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twe...
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twe...

I'm sure most here already knew that, but he really lays out how MS doesn't seem to care about the customer experience or competing with Steam (just muscling them out through lock-in). It's sad that Valve can't seem to make the Steambox concept work, but if MS's platform is the one that succeeds, then we all lose.

Re:IF NOT XBOX: PunishUser(_IncompatDrivers)

[Anonymous Coward]

Really? +4 Insightful? Good lord this place is so full of basement dwelling neckbeards foaming at the mouth at the mere mention of Microsoft.