Essentially all the windows driver does is tell windows that the core should be treated as a virtual com port. Although this behaves correctly without any drivers on Mac and Linux, Windows is a bit more particular. We’re working on getting our driver signed, and hopefully (with some help from Microsoft) maybe we can get this support baked in as well.
Unfortunately I don’t think an executable will have much luck without a driver, but I could certainly be wrong. If someone wants to write a simple app to act as a driverless serial bridge to the core that’d be interesting!