ICD-p320 Recorder 64 bit

Question

Long time ago I purchased a digital voice recorder Sony ICD-P320. Barely used it, but trusting in SONY I decided to keep it instead of returning it to the store.
Years go by and I need it now. I kept the installation CD and everything else just to find out that I can not install it in my Windows Vista Home Premium computer (64 bit) because SONY does NOT support the 64 bit driver, while it does support the 32 bit. I've spend >2 hours browsing the internet and trying different tricks (Windows compatibility, etc) to no avail.
Has somebody developed the driver for the 64 bit Windows Vista?
Why do I have to lose my money and a piece of HARDware just because of lack of SOFTware?
Thanks

Answer 1

Probably let me just add one more comment since I think it's very unlikely that somebody developed the driver for the Sony recorder that I happen to have (which is a good recorder, has just been made obselete due to software incompatibility).
For my comment to make any sense to you, please watch the following short and fun documentary called The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/sos.php). Even if you just watch the documentary without reading my comment, that will be enough.
As it turns out, most of the industry and as a prime example, the electronics and software industry, has been relentlessly plunged themselves and consumers along into a new era called CRAPOCRACY or the consumption of CRAP. This is characterized for developing new and newer pieces of electronics that although some of them do represent a significant improvement (digital vs analogic recorders), are made deliberately obsolete by software incompatibilities and the protection of the so called Property Rights. The hardware could be intact and be very useful indeed but because of protection of 'intellectual property', companies render a product that is virtually crap. Companies do make money this way by halting the competition and stimulating faithful consumers into purchasing newer products to make electronic pieces compatible again. Overall, they are winning. But at a very high price. At the expense of overconsuming the natural resources while keeping everybody stuck with useless stuff.
Take a look at the Carbon Dioxide concentration in the atmosphere surpassing the 350 ppm considered the highest safe margin by the Kyoto protocol. We're at 385 ppm right now!!. We're collapsing!!. And all we hear from politicians is that we need to stimulate the economy!!.
But let me remind you that even during the last day, Sony will publish a list of products it does no longer support. In short, we live in a society deemed to profound ignorance, in a world full of useless crap and by that time we rock bottom, we'll be still be lacking the technology to conquer new worlds (outside planet crappy Earth), especially since the Universe is expanding and becoming unreachable. We must thank Sony and others who have made a commitment to remain stuck in developing more of same newer sh1t that is supposed to replace older, discutinued and incompatible sh1t. Another world is possible, that's what I believe.