Dear Creative...FORGET all these losers who complain h

Dear Creative,?My advice is to just continue to ignore them. After all, they've already spent their money and it's in your bank, so why waste time and resources on them...when there's a whole new crop of customers out there to be harvested. It's just simple common sense. These losers who complain about spending a few hundred dollars for a piece of equipment that won't work are entirely missing the point, that Creative is a massi've company involved in many things and cannot be bothered by trivialities and customer pettiness. Can you imagine?General Motors?being bothered by a puny few hundred-thousand people whose GM cars won't work on the latest Exxon gasoline?Preposterous to imagine ANY mega-corporation like Creative squandering precious resources on such minutiae?as customers and their satisfaction. In short, I see that you are entirely correct to ignore these people and release no further driver updates or even an announcement to that effect. It's obvious that your time is far better spent pursuing the next generation of hardware that may actually WORK with Vista and just let the whole thing blow over in time. A new generation of customers - who'll be oblivious to all this - awaits. After all, every single one of these complainers - these "old" customers - will be dead in a hundred years...and who'll remember all this or be the wiser for it's?Best of luck, Creative. You're one HELL of a mega-corporation.

Flame war invitation?declined go and start some trouble on another forumWilder.
Message Edited by Alexiussooty on 04-28-200702:5 PM

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    Deepu.K

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