I hope this means what I think it means

Creative Labs should put out drivers on their existing products that work well enough with Vista to have end users consider buying form their company again. My expensive Audigy cards work like ten cent toys with Vista.

Or it could be that since the cards aren't very Vista-friendly their sales are down and inventory is starting to build up. To make more economical use of their storage space they need to get rid of cards to make room for more high volume parts.

-mcg

Not Creative... Newegg.

-mcg

I'm glad someone mentioned something like this. I was going to make another thread that sorta related to this, but now I don't have to make another useless thread. Has anyone heard anything about a new sound card at all? X-Fi came out when? 2005 I think? It's definitely about time that they come out with something. If it's only a revision or something (along the lines of the audigy upgrades) or whatever...something new definitely needs to come out. So anyone got an info or something?

I wish another company would come out with some moderately affordable sound cards so that Creative would have some real pressure to develop new products and give us driver support. Personally I'd like a relatively cheap card that has Optical S/PDIF (for my surround sound receiver) so that I can have good sound coming out of my system to match the pretty high def video that I can now put out with my DVI/HDMI cable.
Oh yeah... a PCI-E i1x nterface and a powered FireWire port would be welcome too (like in some of the older Audigy cards).

-mcg