Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certified
Those are the drivers that'll come under this rating system, Microsoft is paid by the manufacturer to test and certify that his hardware and drivers run fine on XP and Vista. I am sure that if MS does manage to catch some bugs, he'll have resubmit the corrected driver and pay the certification fees again
read the article first,
and have another entire configuration tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) for logo certification
which means MS is saying if their lab fails to catch the bugs in driver during their testing phase for the certification, hmm, you are supposed to report the bugs that slipped thru.
To summarize, You pay MS to use Vista, the manufacturer pays MS to test and certify that his drivers run fine on Vista. So incase the goofs at MS did not catch the bugs, YOU THE CUSTOMER, who paid for the OS, and the little premium for the "Vista" certified hardware over the non-certified one, are supposed to do that for free and report to MS that the f**cking driver is crashing and making you go mad. MS then kicks the manufacturers ass, who had also paid MS in the first place to test and certify the driver before it was passed onto you.
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Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certified
Those are the drivers that'll come under this rating system, Microsoft is paid by the manufacturer to test and certify that his hardware and drivers run fine on XP and Vista. I am sure that if MS does manage to catch some bugs, he'll have resubmit the corrected driver and pay the certification fees again
read the article first,
and have another entire configuration tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) for logo certification
which means MS is saying if their lab fails to catch the bugs in driver during their testing phase for the certification, hmm, you are supposed to report the bugs that slipped thru.
To summarize, You pay MS to use Vista, the manufacturer pays MS to test and certify that his drivers run fine on Vista. So incase the goofs at MS did not catch the bugs, YOU THE CUSTOMER, who paid for the OS, and the little premium for the "Vista" certified hardware over the non-certified one, are supposed to do that for free and report to MS that the f**cking driver is crashing and making you go mad. MS then kicks the manufacturers ass, who had also paid MS in the first place to test and certify the driver before it was passed onto you.
Either ways, MS make more money.