Windows 10 Anniversary update now requires driver devs to buy a $600 EV cert

[Foxscotch]

Actually some of your hardware might not get updated drivers anymore if they don't want to pay the fine.

imagine what it'd do to a hardware manufacturer to suddenly stop supporting the latest version (and presumably all future versions) of the most popular operating system in the world

[Ad Bot]

[Willymcmilly]

imagine what it'd do to a hardware manufacturer to suddenly stop supporting the latest version (and presumably all future versions) of the most popular operating system in the world

It'd be a kick in the balls for both them and Microsoft. A much needed kick in the balls for Microsoft, although.

[carolcat]

It'd be a kick in the balls for both them and Microsoft. A much needed kick in the balls for Microsoft, although.

except there's alternatives to that manufacturer, so i don't think microsoft would be hurt all that badly just because one peripheral brand stopped supporting windows 10

[Khaz]

is $600 even a lot to hardware manufacturers lol

[Tokthree]

is $600 even a lot to hardware manufacturers lol

For reals, it's basically just another licensing fee. It's not going to change anything or stop anyone from doing anything that matters on Windows

[bestguy22]

Another reason to hate windows 10. First my computer kept on getting pop ups asking me to upgrade to Windows 10, then one night it auto upgraded me without me knowing! Now we have this dumbass problem

i love your username

[Mr Queeba]

And now I'm starting to regret Windows 10.

[Foxscotch]

is $600 even a lot to hardware manufacturers lol

it depends
I don't have any problem at all with charging big companies big fees. in fact, I think it's both a reasonably effective and morally responsible business model, to charge small businesses/individuals smaller amounts of money, and just charge corporations a lot to make most of your profit
but when you apply that fee indiscriminately to everyone I feel like it can create some problems. like if someone's just trying to dabble in making joystick controllers for fun, for example

it doesn't really matter in this specific case though, because this certification requirement only applies to kernel mode drivers, and your joystick controller driver doesn't need to run in kernel mode

[McJob]

Every big (and almost all small) loving hardware manufacturers ALREADY were paying a charge to be certified. Microsoft has been continually pushing for this for ages and plenty of developers are already in the habit.

As Foxscotch said, this only applies to drivers that need Kernel-level access.; aka drivers that very well forget up your system royally.

Anyone crying about this should seriously just head over to Linux and stop whining because it's clear they don't have enough basic common sense to keep using Windows.

[ZSNO]

Anyways where does it say $600? I couldn't find anything from the link.

[Foxscotch]

Anyways where does it say $600? I couldn't find anything from the link.

that article doesn't say this, but in microsoft's blog post about it, you can see that it requires an extended validation certificate
there are only a few companies to choose from, and symantec's are about $800 a year (jesus). on the other end of the spectrum, digicert seems to offer them for about $225 a year
the companies that it listed are presumably the only CAs windows will trust

although maybe in the future we'll see letsencrypt offering code signing certificates too ;)

[ZSNO]

although maybe in the future we'll see letsencrypt offering code signing certificates too ;)

I'm pretty sure the professor of the computer security class I'm taking next semester is one of the owners of LetsEncrypt so I'll ask.

[Bisjac]

i got no problem installing uncertified things to my computer.
lol