Creative Backs Down on Vista Driver Debacle

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday April 4, 2008 @05:07AM from the three-black-eyes-and-a-bloody-nose dept.

In the wake of last week's driver debacle, Creative has finally decided to back down for PR purposes. Modder Daniel_K, author of the offending Vista drivers, has had his posts on the Creative forums reinstated. According to Creative the move was to avoid infringing on other company's IP. "Daniel_K is incensed by Creative. 'They publicly threatened me, just to show their arrogance,' he told El Reg by email. He told us that Creative contacted him on a chat session. 'They were sarcastic, ironic and asked me if I wanted something from them, as if I were expecting something,' he wrote. 'It was my protest against them and would like to see how far it would go.'"

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3 cheers for creative! by RecycledElectrons · 2008-04-04 09:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

3 cheers for Creative!

When my GA-965P-S3 motherboard's Azalea sound chips refused to work in XP 64, a $7.99 Creative PCI card from Fry's fixed it.

When this guy started hacking around with drivers, Creative let him post on their forums.

When Creative screwed up and shut him down (and it very well could be someone else's IP) they fixed it!

Thanks, Creative!

Andy Out!