Microsoft this week began shipping out another set of firmware updates for the Surface Studio, bringing along a variety of stability and reliability improvements across the board. One of the main highlights here is an improvement to the reliability of the Xbox Wireless Adapter, but the updates also improve the ink on hover threshold and resolve a couple of security issues.
Here's a look at all of what's new (via MSPU):
- Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows – Network adapters: 1.0.45.4 improves reliability of the Xbox Wireless Adapter.
- Surface Pen Firmware Update – System: 3.0.7.0 improves ink on hover threshold.
- Surface Pen Integration Device – Human Interface Devices: 1.0.9.0 improves ink on hover threshold.
- Surface UEFI – Firmware: 118.2311.770.0 resolves potential security vulnerabilities, including Microsoft Security Advisory 180012 and 180013.
- Surface ME – Firmware: 11.8.50.3448 improves system stability.
- Intel(R) Management Engine Interface – System: 11.7.0.1057 improves system stability.
According to Microsoft's update tracker, these fixes began rolling out on October 1. If you own a Surface Studio, you should be able to snag them now via Windows Update.
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