Surface Book 2 August 2021 firmware updates are here
The latest Surface Book 2 wares are firm as can be.
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What you need to know
Another month, another firmware update for your favorite Microsoft device. In this case, we’re looking at theSurface Book 2’s August 2021 assortment of firmware goodies. Expect camera and audio improvements, as well as security vulnerabilities being addressed and improved stability for “Surface Dock 2 scenarios,” as Microsoft puts it.
Specifically, the August update:
You can check outMicrosoft’s support pagefor a detailed breakdown of all the individual components affected by the firmware update to bring about the aforementioned improvements. It’s mainly a laundry list of display adapters, Realtek High Definition Audio, and camera items that all come together to amount to the changes already listed.
The update is for Surface Book 2s running Windows 10’s May 2019 update, version 1903 (19H1), or anything more recent than that. It’s not a big update, and there’s nothing major on the firmware slate that’ll completely overhaul the Surface Book 2 experience, but still, it’s never a bad thing to receive camera, audio, security, and Bluetooth improvements.
TheSurface Laptop 3andSurface Gohave already received their updates for August 2021, so if you have either of those devices, feel free to check Microsoft’s pages for the corresponding firmware logs.
And if you want to stay in the loop when it comes to Windows updates, know that the latest Windows 10 updateput an end to PrintNightmare… for a few minutes, until it became apparent thatPrintNightmare isn’t going awayno matter how hard Microsoft tries.
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