Microsoft has released an update for its Surface Pro 2 is removed, after reports from users that the battery life of the tablet greatly declined after the introduction of the new firmware. The update will only be in January to be re-released.
On 10 december, Microsoft released updates for its Surface tablets. A patch for the Surface Pro 2 had, among other improvements regarding stability and the sleep activation with the collapse of the cover. Instead, it got a lot of users errorcode 80070490 presented in the installation.
The message led to a lot of complaints, but according to Microsoft, I did the installation actually correct and was the errorcode incorrectly displayed. “If you errorbericht have received, we advise you to enter the device manager and in the firmware history to see if the latest update is installed”, left Microsoft to WinBeta know.
Then also, many users indicated that the battery life of their Surface Pro 2 was strongly reduced after applying the firmware update, Microsoft decided the roll out to stop. “We are working to get an alternative update package to bring after the holiday,” writes Microsoft on the Surface Pro 2 forum.
