This blog post is intended to notify all Windows Hardware program partners that Microsoft has taken a strategic initiative to clean up legacy drivers published on Windows Update to reduce security an...
Published Jun 19, 2025
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While having a well organized and updated driver catalog is undoubtedly a good thing, please spare a thought for curators of vintage PC collections. The Windows Update Driver catalog is a near unrivaled resource on the internet for known good drivers, and is a great source for drivers where the original manufactures have either removed the drivers from their own websites, or they no longer exist.
It would be a shame to lose this one of a kind resource. Please consider letting Legacy Update or Archive.org take copies of the drives you remove!
Indeed, legacy-hardware is a very crucial topic here! For most hardware, there's no other driver-source but Microsoft's own Update Catalog as a source for Windows-driver anyway.
If that's no longer the case, given legacy-hardware would end up being essentially nothing but e-waste.