Here’s why so many of your Windows drivers are from 2006

Feb10

by Sindy Cator on February 10, 2017 at 8:37 pm

If you’re a long time Windows user reading a tech blog, chances are you’ve had to mess around with drivers in the Device Manager at some point. You might’ve noticed something peculiar – Microsoft’s drivers are from 2006. Specifically, June 21, 2006. Surely Microsoft has updated drivers since then, right? After all, most of the components in your computer were probably released after 2006. Is it a bug that’s been around since last decade? Did Microsoft invent a time machine? Turns out there’s a simple explanation. A Microsoft developer took to Reddit to explain the technical quirk – which is…