This story seems to be spreading like wildfire at the moment. From Slashdot:
Creative is currently under an estimated five tons of squidgy brown stuff over this. Daniel_K came along and helped out loads of people with Creative sound cards under Vista, giving them back things that worked under XP, and Creative gives him the backhand. The forum thread that kicked all this off is here if anyone wants to have a look.
"Since the release of Windows Vista, Creative has promised their Sound Cards as being 'Vista Ready'. Unfortunately, as many unlucky customers did discover, this is not true. What the users actually found were buggy, feature crippled drivers. Creative insisted that features such as Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS(TM) signals and DVD-Audio which worked fine in WinXP, would not work on windows Vista. With Creative releasing less than one new driver a year, things seemed bleak. Fortunately, a talented user, Daniel_K, was recently able to 'fix' many of the drivers, enabling the incompatible features and also fixing many bugs. Just today Creative has decided to put a stop to this. They removed all links to his modified drivers, and banned several users who were posting links to the now banned drivers."
Creative is currently under an estimated five tons of squidgy brown stuff over this. Daniel_K came along and helped out loads of people with Creative sound cards under Vista, giving them back things that worked under XP, and Creative gives him the backhand. The forum thread that kicked all this off is here if anyone wants to have a look.
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