Microsoft Releases January 2016 Firmware Updates For Surface Pro 4 And Surface Book

Microsoft today released January 2016 firmware updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4. These updates improves overall stability and performance of these devices. Read about them in detail below.

The following update will be listed as “System Firmware Update – 1/27/2016” when you view your update history.

Surface Pro 4:

• Surface Embedded Controller Firmware (v103.899.256.0) adds battery charging enhancements and thermal tuning.
• Surface Fingerprint Sensor driver update (v2.2.10.6) improves accuracy.
• Wireless Network Controller and Bluetooth driver update (v15.68.9037.59) improves access point compatibility and throughput on 5Ghz networks.

Surface Book:

• Surface Embedded Controller Firmware (v88.899.256.0) adds battery charging enhancements and thermal tuning.
• Wireless Network Controller and Bluetooth driver update (v15.68.9037.59) improves access point compatibility and throughput on 5Ghz networks.
• Surface DTX driver update (v1.3.202.0) improves detection of the Surface keyboard to the clipboard.

In addition to the updates list above, the following additional update is available for Surface Book devices that have the optional NVIDIA GeForce GPU discrete graphics chip:

• NVIDIA GeForce GPU update (v10.18.13.5914) improves stability.

When Surface updates are provided via the Windows Update service, they are delivered in stages to Surface customers. As a result, not every Surface will receive the update at the same time, but the update will be delivered to all devices. If you have not received the update then please manually check Windows Update later.