Creative and Drivers Fia

Hi,
Just thought I would stick a few questions in here to Creative about their drivers.
Basically, I want to know why it is that they continuosly refuse to update drivers for their hardware and give support to their own customer base and fix the problems that their users are reporting to them.
I mean, Auzentech Inc, who make the X-Fi Prelude have had large amounts of driver updates recently, which are provided and coded by the Creative driver development team.
One main point I would like to make, if you look at Auzentech's release notes, you will see:
SW Bug Fixes requested by Auzentech
This clearly shows that Creative are actively developing and fixing problems for them and their customers by request, yet fail to do it for their own customers. Not sure how everyone looks on this, but me, I say help yourself and own customers first before helping anyone elses.
But then again, this is probably a business decision because they probably get money from Auzentech for continued development.
Looks like we all need to License the X-Fi chip, make our own card, then request/expect support.

Andy:
We appreciate your feedback on the situation, and have created a new thread for all further feedback/comments located here:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...hread.id=22807
Thanks in advance for continued civil and constructive feedback,
Dale

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