Can you elaborate? AFAIK Arduino drivers are properly signed with a proper certificate
As you are an "Engineer at Arduino" Would it not be better that you elaborated on the status of your drivers?
I am only posting what I have experienced, and my computing experience and creating software goes back to the TRS80 and C64 days so I did not come down in the last shower of rain.
The drivers I downloaded from your "latest" release of the IDE will not install thru the device manager in Windows 8.1 on a Gigabyte mobo. (as many other users have also experienced) This was because MS introduced a certification of conformity requirement with Win Vista et seq.
The object being that, especially from China, the market was being flooded with countless items of hardware from cameras to satellite TV cards, Audio devices, ad nauseum. The drivers accompanying these items of hardware are usually contained on a mini CD, often without any identification nor information. In many cases these so-called drivers contained malware and feral content that corrupted the MS operating systems. It was only with a certain knowledge of how to removed this feral software that one had no alternative but to completely reformat the computer and re-install the OS.
Many people just throw in software into the default folders in Program Files instead of putting applications etc onto a separate drive. As a result the OS directories and registries became cluttered with so much rubbish, the C: drive becomes nothing more than a garbage dump interfering the smooth running of the OS.
I have transferred my Arduino files and software to a different computer running Vista and installed the driver by using the "Install driver anyway, I know where it came from" option, This a P4GX-MX Asus mobo.
The Arduino drivers are firmly in place and the software and control of the Arduino UNO R3 board I have are running seemlessly. This computer is used exclusively for running Astronomy, Security and Radio related software and not used for games nor entertainment.
My primary interest in Arduino is for Radio and Security applications.
If the "latest drivers" have a genuine MS signed and approved certificate embodied, then why is Windows 8.1 rejecting them? Are they contained in the latest IDE release? If not why not and where are they?
Thank you for your kind attention
