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Shipping Label Changes, and Manual Drivers

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kevintremblay
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Feb 18, 2020
Driver publishing can be complicated. Optional drivers have various methods of acquisition, which creates confusion. Starting now we are making changes to streamline things a bit. All partners will n...
Updated Feb 20, 2020
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Günter Born
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Mar 10, 2020

kevintremblay: I'm getting confused. In your above reply you wrote:

The changes to Ux for Windows 10 20H1 detailed here will not be backported to previous releases. For older versions of Windows Manual drivers are obtained via Device Manager (same as Optional drivers were).

But now we have the article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/dashboard/gradual-rollout, that give precise hints how Microsoft is planning driver updates via Windows Update. And there I read:

 

When the throttled percentage is at 100% it is completely live on WU to all systems running Windows 10 version 1709 and later. Microsoft will continue to monitor the release for rest of the 30 day period.

 

Does that mean: We will have driver shipping via Windows Update (instead of Device Manager) also in older Windows 10 builds, but don't get the new GUI to block drivers?