Sadly, your assumption fails from the beginning. There is no fee to
Microsoft nor to anyone else to sign drivers. To sign or not to sign is the
choice of the vendor. There are a great many white papers and guides on the
subject.
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"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> This driver signing is beginning to sound like extortion. Somehow it is
> leading to 3rd party application providers to have to pay Micro$oft or no
> signed drivers for the M$ OS. This will raise costs in that vendors have
> to pander to Microsoft.
>
> If a user authorizes a 3rd party driver, it should never prompt again.
>
> Just an observation.