WshlistExcept it does make your box kaput, and when they listed causes of crashes on vista they said 80% graphic drivers (nvidia mostly since they had the first vista drivers back then), but meanwhile they OK'd those drivers, drivers that crashed a vanilla vista, which just clearly illustrates it's not what it was conceptualized to be, which was a way to make the OS much more stable by not allowing shoddy drivers on it, and specifically not drivers that interact with other core drivers to cause a crash, that was the whole idea of it, to make the core of the OS uncrashable, and what do we ATI users get when we use 64bit windows? driver version after version that crashes your box cold, I mean hard crash to the BIOS, that was suppose to NOT happen by having WHQL prevent such drivers from being approved.

But meh, in the end complete control by MS is a bad idea anyway, and it's better if the users uses his smarts to not keep drivers that crash his system, but then why does ATI and other companies have to go through a fake show and dance and pay for a certificate, it's silly.

Musselsall the test does, is proves that it wont crash the OS. which is better than nothing.

MS aren't certifying the drivers to work with other drivers, or to play nice with 3D games - just that installing the driver will not make your PC go kaput.