[vetinari]

> I believe he means unofficial as in not provided by Microsoft.

Microsoft is only middle-man, the drivers are written by GPU vendors in the first place. Why should I prefer middle-man to the original source?

Historically, the drivers provided by Microsoft via Windows Update were worse (older) than those provided by GPU vendors directly.

> Microsoft works to make sure Direct3D works and I imagine they have lots of tests and compatibility suites there.

So do Khronos group and GPU vendors for Vulkan.