Creative Sound Cards with Vista?
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seems like their sound cards don't work with Vista...
and when someone made them work, Creative decided to tekan the guy... but this time, like xedo, people got mad...
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I just read the post by the VP at the end....
Basket.... that was incredibly brusque and high-handed. For example, he said:
'If we choose to develop and provide host-based processing features with certain sound cards and not others, that is a business decision that only we have the right to make.'
Translation: 'If we choose to make profits instead of giving customers what they want, then it's because we have the right to do so.'
Dang.... I'm glad I dumped my Creative Zen V Plus for an iPod nano.
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strange thing is that the guy did nothing wrong..
he's not pirating or anything like that.. it's just writing 3rd party software or drivers..
nothing illegal at all
it may negate the warranty, but then, i'd rather have it without warranty and working than with a warranty and not working...
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Originally posted by the Bear:
strange thing is that the guy did nothing wrong..
he's not pirating or anything like that.. it's just writing 3rd party software or drivers..
nothing illegal at all
it may negate the warranty, but then, i'd rather have it without warranty and working than with a warranty and not working...
i was ok with it but he asked for donations and creative did a PR boo boo
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donations.. not charging people money..
it's a different thing
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What Creative could have done is to buy over the guy's driver software, work on it, and officially release it to their customers....
But no, they chose to ride roughshod over him..... good luck to them trying to handle the backlash.
In the first place, I don't understand at all why Creative doesn't want to release drivers for Vista.... if anything, doesn't that dissuade people from buying Creative sound cards?
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I'm not too keen to find out what's going on. Creative, as far as they are concern, don't really care a hoot about what users do as long as you don't claim rights over their stuffs. Creative doesn't like that a lot; the lawsuit between Apple and Creative should show a lot...
However... do take note that Creative also licenses from other technology companies as well... while Creative can don't care for their own products... other technology companies which Creative licenses from may not think the same way. Creative could be sued if they did nothing about it.
It's just bad PR IMO. Creative bore the whole thing.
And BTW, coming up with a driver that works on Vista is not easy. If Vista doesn't like it, it will BSOD on you. It doesn't matter if you follow rules, Vista is just Vista. I'm not surprised if Creative has problems coming up with something that works. Creative also released some slipshod work for those who have good memory...
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Originally posted by fudgester:
What Creative could have done is to buy over the guy's driver software, work on it, and officially release it to their customers....
But no, they chose to ride roughshod over him..... good luck to them trying to handle the backlash.
In the first place, I don't understand at all why Creative doesn't want to release drivers for Vista.... if anything, doesn't that dissuade people from buying Creative sound cards?
Microsoft may monopolise the OS market... Creative doesn't have to follow suit... I think they may want to try out something else for all we know.
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The only logical reason I think of for such a response from Creative, is that they are planning to come out with a new series of sound cards that support Vista along with the necessary drivers but just for those cards only. This will then force users who are shifting from XP to Vista to upgrade their sound cards as well, which would translate to more profits for them.
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I'm thinking if Creative is thinking of working with Apple or one of the major Linux distros. MS rules can really be suffocating sometimes.
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I think they are trying to do an "intel915" with their older series of sound cards.