Microsoft January Surface firmware updates revisited:

January 2014 wasn't the best month for Microsoft Surface users trying to make sense of which updates arrived for their devices.
Patch Tuesday came and went without any word on expected firmware updates. Shortly thereafter, various updates, some marked as firmware, some labeled as "hardware" updates and others as more mundane reliability and performance fixes, began arriving via Windows Update on users' devices.

I've heard from Surface Pro 2 users who've been plagued by what seems to be the same firmware update being delivered to their machines repeatedly, despite the fact that they seem to have successfully updated with the latest firmware release. (This may be a Windows Update problem, rather than a Surface Pro 2 problem, I'm hearing.) And even though Microsoft's Surface Update History Page claimed until some time in the past few days that there was no Surface RT firmware update this month, those of us with the original ARM-based Surface know we did get a firmware update.

So let's go back to the drawing board.

As of January 28, here's what Microsoft's Surface Update History pages are now indicating that the company delivered this month to its various Surface users: ...

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