[Hawxy]

No, Windows Update's Nvidia driver set is usually years out of date and rarely gets updated. It exists as an emergency fallback and doesn't push out regular updates.

[baq]

It’s also likely nvidia keeps submitting the driver and it can’t pass the 'is this not crap' step of the process. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

[chrisjj]

And there's the nub.

Perhaps nVideo should request access to a dpecial 'this is less crap' process and help MS understand how dangerous is the previous crap it approved.

[kmoser]

Which begs the question: is Windows' NVIDIA driver even affected by this recent flaw?

Because I don't use my PC to play games and thus don't need anything more than run-of-the-mill graphics acceleration, I'm loathe to download NVIDIA's enormous drivers, which I assume contain extraneous features and utilities that are useless to me.

[chrisjj]

How is this latest not an emergency, I wonder.