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Why not, since they are more recent?

• deleted 10y ago
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• Someone1234 10y ago
  But different. The drivers provided with the OS are generic. The drivers you can download are bespoke and offer additional features. A perfect example is Microsoft's webcams. The built in driver will run the webcam fine. The downloaded driver adds "fun" overlays, filters, and software to control it. So that's why not. Users won't want their webcam driver being downgraded every time a Windows Update is installed in the background. Even for Microsoft hardware.
  • jorblumesea 10y ago
    This is especially true for things like graphics cards, where the drivers are so highly custom you wouldn't want generics in the first place.
  • chrismeller 10y ago
    Except, presumably, the vendor-provided driver is a match specifically for the hardware ID, which would already put it as the #1 match and no one would ever care about the timestamp. It does seem to me that, at least somewhere along the line, we'd probably prefer the generic Windows driver from 2017 over the specific vendor driver from late 2006, though...