Windows 10 and Certificates

[Theo Gottwald]

Starting with Windows 7 but even more with Windows 10,
Software to be trusted needs a certification.
A real certification needs to be a certification that is connected to a root-certificate.
I have now ordered such a certificate, and its not cheap (About $400 for 2 years)  how do you all solve this problem?
Do you use certificates?

[Steve Hutchesson]

Certificates are just another way for parasites to scrape a few bucks out of developers. A vast amount of viable software does not use them. just make sure you use both a manifest and version control block so the details of the software can e easily recognised.

[Carlo Pagani]

Steve, maybe parasitic, but if you sell software to run under windows 10 you likely to get your user scared when the see the banner popping up and no obvious way to run you app because that option is buried. Like Theo, we had to feed the parasites but chose the 3 year option as that works out better value for money.

I also think that it makes Windows a little safer.