https://community.osr.com/t/locked-out-of-microsoft-partner-... Could be a related issue to this? Maybe Microsoft just doesn’t want driver developers for whatever reason.

Presumably it’s part of their commitment to kill kernel patching in Windows, to prevent another Worldwide Enterprise Windows Outage Caused By A Buggy Vendor DLL event.

its my computer. its my os. i own it. I paid my money and bought the program. not them. I am free to install whatever software and modify whatever kernel components as i see fit.

I am so sick and tired of the continued erosion of the ownership model. I dont want to rent anything. But corporations see it as an avenue to increase revenue. We pay more, for less. What else is new.