Poll: windows update reliable?

[dmachop]

I've found that some of the drivers which I use are automatically updated while some are not......
If these drivers are updated are these done through windows update?
Neither I use update options for driver nor installed the latest version.
I checked manually for some drivers where I could install and it did.


Really, are windows updates necessary although specific softwares/progs do much better than them?
And,is it really necessary update to the latest version since the hardware may not be able to cope up with the latest driver?

[QBANBOY407]

what i think is that we need the updates so the programs will run better! they release the updates to fix the bugs they find! A couple weeks ago i had a few updates and one of them driver updates cut my internet off! i had to restore the driver for the internet to work again!