The Surface Pro 2 firmware update seems to be the one that fixes the issues users have complained about, including: tablet entering into sleep mode and draining the battery faster than expected, among other problems, which were caused by the December 2013 firmware update, though it is unclear if this is the case. Like every second Tuesday of every month, early this week Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday, but users found out that the company only made available Windows and first-gen Surface Pro running Windows 8.0 updates. And there was not official comments from the software giant other than they will release the Surface Pro 2 firmware update as soon as possible.
Mary Jo Foley also reports that a few users on the Microsoft’s Answers Forum have installed the January 18, 2014, firmware update on his Surface Pro 2 and they note that the previous problem (cold booting with a micro SD card still there) and it’s also causing high CPU utilization. Microsoft has yet to comment and the company still didn’t update the Surface Pro 2 Update History page. I’ll be updating the article as new information from Microsoft becomes available. Are you seeing the Surface Pro 2 January firmware update? Did it fix the problems for you? Be the first and let us know your results. Thanks, Update: Here is the official Microsoft statement on January firmware update for Surface Pro 2: Update: Microsoft finally notes what’s in January 14th, 2014, firmware update of Surface Pro 2 at the Update History page:
Updated UEFI firmware, version 2.04.0350, to resolve behavior where the Surface failed to enter sleep while idle, negatively impacting battery life.
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