Surface Pro 4 , Surface Book Get Firmware Updates

Microsoft has released its first firmware updates of the year for the Surface Book and also the Surface Pro 4 research devices. The updates aim to deliver a range of improvements, though if you had been hoping fixes for battery power drain and wake-up concerns, your wait isn't over as of this time.

Surface Pro 4 , Surface Book Get Firmware Updates

The Redmond giant in Thursday released January 2016 firmware messages for both its brand-new Surface devices. The company notes the updates will offer cold weather tuning, wireless access level compatibility, and better assist for 5GHz Wi-Fi community.

Additional improvements include improved keyboard detection and security patches for Nvidia visuals cards. The description of the update confirms that Microsoft hasn't yet patched the actual battery drain and sleeping issues inside the Surface Pro 4 and also the Surface Book, and that will upset many users.

Past month, Microsoft acknowledged an issue using the Surface Pro 4 and also the Surface Book that had been preventing the devices from going to standby mode properly - this understandably, also took a toll about the battery.

Surface Pro 4 , Surface Book Get Firmware Updates

This is apparently happening due to issues in the Intel Skylake chipsets. Microsoft last month noted it would release a fix for your aforementioned issues "sometime soon inside the new year. " Currently, it appears affected users would have to wait for a handful of more weeks.

If which wasn't disappointing enough, the updates per user complaints and are also causing driver issues. Strangely enough, the update has also got harder to detach the outer lining Book screen at almost all. Some users also note that after the update, their Surface device has stopped recognising the outer lining Pen.