All these new signing practices may be useful en valuable , but it kills my current business. I’ve decided not to support Win10 (
although my driver software installs and works perfectly on Win10 Insider preview ) , and I am even thinking about stopping driver
development it all. I pay now yearly for a MSDN membership and a Sha1 certificate. Additionally payments for a Sha2 EV certificate
and a dashboard ( winqual ) account exceeds the yearly income of providing the software. I also worked out a method whereby each
user received a “branded” ( with name , e-mail address , etc ) *.sys file as a sort of license identification. Compilation ,
signing , packaging en sending takes only a few minutes. All this collapses due the time needed when to submit it to the dashboard.
All my customers receive currently updates for free. Now , I will send a note to all of them not to expect updates anymore ( unless
they keep using pre-Win10 versions ) and suggest them to send their complaints about this to Microsoft.
Christiaan