Surface Firmware Gets New Naming Conventions This Month

This may not sound like much of a change, but for those tasked with deploying new images or image refreshes across the landscape of the Enterprise, it matters a lot. Additionally, I know some IT Pros have developed scripts to download, integrated, and deploy the new firmware images, but those script tasked are based on the old naming scheme.

Starting this month, Microsoft is giving its Surface device firmware a new naming structure. Here’s the new structure:

devicename_carrier/model_OSversion_BuildNumber

Here’s how this will look:

EXTRA: Permanent firmware download pages…