Only Signed Drivers To Run on Vista X64 (http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=435)

In the latest shocker to hit the driver development community, it seems that Microsoft has decided that only signed drivers will be loadable on 64-bit Windows Vista systems. [more]This thing is gonna be the biggest piece of garbage yet!!!!

I'm wondering if this legal. M$ has a monopole and wants to force manufacturers to pay 500$/year for publishing a working driver. Im not surprised...... :mad:

Ok, The Dude, could you explain a bit further just what you're talking about?

Thank you for moving it my friend,im sorry i posted this on the wrong base.........

Basically i think M$ is gonna try and force companies ro REGISTER thier drivers with them (Anything to extract $$$)

I dunno..........

Time to switch for a Mac...

I really think its a way for MS to keep tabs on what people are running and if they dont want you to run it,THEY WONT ALLOW IT TO RUN (Losers)

This is an interesting reply to my message on another site

The drivers that allow me to download game demos to my DS aren't signed, and never would be. It limits your freedom as an end user. That's something I value, so I guess all my machines will run Linux from now on.

Right now you have the option of only using signed drivers. Why can't that be the case with Vista? Because MS wants control of your PC, not because they want a more stable OS.I COULD NOT HAVE SAID THIS BETTER!! http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/thedude/icon04.gif

To a certain extent, drivers are already signed due to fear of infringment on copyrights and trademarks.

For instance -- the linux community is very hesitant to provide drivers for software modems because the software used to emulate the hardware DSP is usually copyright or trademark protected. No one wants to be sued over a driver. It's easier to just force the linux user to buy a hardware modem, $80-$100 notwithstanding.

But your point is taken.

On the Vista issue ... I think it will be a winner for MS. Voice recognition will be enough of a new bell and whistle to make the winders folks forget Vista's shortcomings.

I've read a great deal about Windows Vista, and from talking with many of my computer friends, in seems no one is planning on upgrading to it. I think its future launch is going to be a slow one.

Also, look at all the cheap computers for sale, in tech stores and on the net. $500 gets you something to browse the net and get your email, which is what a great deal of people do these days. High end gaming is still not for the masses, and seen by the glut of new computers with poor integrated video on board that were sold last Xmas.

Now try to guess what a new computer running Vista will need hardware wise, and you will see it has to be closer to $1500 or $2000. I can’t see these flying off the shelves for what an XP system will do.
Check out what Wikipedia has to say about system requirements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_vista

I for one don’t like these facts.
Motherboard: ACPI-compatible firmware is required.
Display: Copy-restricted high-definition digital content, such as next-generation HD DVD movies, is intentionally displayed fuzzy unless viewed on a High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)-compatible monitor. Very few existing displays and no retail video cards are compliant with this standard.

So you need a new monitor too! Great.
The OS shouldn't be driving the market, System RAM and Video RAM should be for what I want to run, not for the OS.

Exactly!!!!!!!!!