The problem is that Nvidia has been advertising DX10 support for the past three months and those who bought the video cards (the 8800s) and then decided to upgrade to Windows Vista (which Nvidia claims is "supported") have to deal with a horrible driver support. There's merit to a lawsuit since Nvidia used Vista to advertise its parts.

For once I'd like to see news on this stuff before a company publicly admits guilt.

How about:
S-C-P on Creative's soundcards.
Could it be bad capacitors? (among other things.)
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soun...
How much spyware is in Creative's drivers?
How unethical is making programs/utilities with a driver, that detects what OS you are running, and disabling certain features if its not > =XP?

and hey, skype reads your bios:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37489

And an interesting extra dimension to this current driver mess:-

It seems as if both ATi/AMD and Nvidia have a lot to do before the HDTV output from a PC will match that of a stand-alone HD-DVD or Blu-ray player connected directly to a 1080p/i HDTV. No hurry buying a HD-DVD or Blu-ray ROMdrive/burner for your PC until the graphics-card vendors get their hardware and their drivers straightened out. Maybe no hurry upgrading your graphics hardware either until the HDTV issues are fully addressed. See today's very interesting article on Anandtech:-

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2923

I'm actually glad to hear that at least nVidia is verbally committing to a much better driver program than they've had. When I switched to ATi Catalysts in 2002, I left a nVidia driver program which operated basically on a "When we feel like it" basis as far as updates went, and a "say nothing" approach to telling people what they fixed when they did their sporadic official updates. What driver updates appeared were most often unofficial updates that materialized on the 'net and came from gosh knows where--nVidia's official updates seemed quarterly if that regular. So this is certainly progress for nVidia, if only they'll actually follow through--which remains to be seen, of course.

At the very least, though, at last we can permanently and forever dispense with the silly notion I've seen repeated often on the Internet--that ATi "required" monthly updates, whereas nVidia didn't, because the Catalysts were so much more buggy....;) I mean, people actually believed that because nVidia didn't *talk* about the bugs it fixed when it did officially update its drivers that there *weren't* any bugs in the nVidia drivers. Pretty funny...;)--and if it does nothing else this announcement should at last dispel such notions to the void. Here's hoping nVidia will follow through as it will certainly be in their interests to do so.

About time! The whole "Beta" have your customers test your code thing has got to go.

Darn idiots... they buy Wista knowing it's raw, buggy, breaks pretty much all sane hardware acceleration, and then they fail lawsuits against hardware companies... Some people deserve to be beaten up.

I'd take a single, fully working driver over a bunch of crap on a monthly schedule, any day of the week.

Now if only AMD/ATI and Nvidia could only include an auto update feature in their drivers. Could solve a lot of problems with users who think at the level of Joe Sixpack.

Good to see, now hopefully they will do the right thing and support the GeForce FX series, as well as nForce 2 and 3 motherboards in Vista - all technologies which are more than good enough to run the operating system.