Creative Technolgies = Singaporean Engineers and Developers = Ignorant Arrogant Fools.

They finally listened after a pledge thread of 1000+ pages lol.

Creative have always had really crap support especially on their soundcards, and ignore most support rquests outright. I don't know any IT pros who would touch Creative hardware (with the occasional exception of the Audigy).

I wrote to them with a work-around fix for the huge lag many users had with the SBlive (pre Dx6). They refused to accept there was a problem for over a year before finally publishing the work-around on their forums (the actual bug was never fixed).

All things considered, this news article shows an improvement from Creative support. I still would touch them though.

:-)

Now Linux has a chance to over take M$.
If they can keep going and get the drivers out for there Op system, and get more game makers to make software for Linux then it will take off big time. As there are a lot of people looking of something else to run on there systems. But as it is now there is nothing to use. 
Two things drive the market on PC's. One is games, the other is office software, Well they have the Office software for linux, but the games are little and far between. When they get that on the marked , and be able to load drivers with a click on a Icon , I think linux will over take Vista and Win XP fast. 
Here is your chance, it will take Microsoft at least a year and a half to get there new op system on the market, if you can get linux going like I said above where anyone can use it with out having to do the loading the hard way then you can take over the market. 
Let's see what you can do. You are very close now to having it ready .

These cards don't do Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect, so they can't pass 5.1 to your home theater from games, therefore they are garbage.

Linux support for sound is also rubbish, at least in the KDE env..

Hey Linux zealots... here is an excellent opportunity to make Microsoft and Vista look bad. If the community can come up with an open source driver for the X-fi cards that keeps the hardware acceleration intact then Microsoft is going to look like first rate idiots for dropping HW acceleration in Vista. I've used Creative's "ALchemy" answer for Vista... it sucks. Boo Microsoft for bowing to RIAA pressure and DRM-ing Vista to death.
Now get to work penguins!

Having tried that stupid driver from Sept 07, checking all the support questions in Sound Blasters own forums, they finally get a clue