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Creative charging $10 for driver updates

Published Jul 9th, 2007 1:46PM EDT
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As if Vista users didn’t have enough issues already, what with bugs, granting permission to everything you want to run, and bad resource management…now they have to pay for driver updates? That’s what Creative has decided, charging $9.99 for Vista driver updates for its Audigy sound cards, particularly if you want to access the EAX sound effects. Most are baffled as to why anyone would charge extra for something that its competition (and the industry, for that matter) has always absorbed and offered for free. We would fall under that category, too.

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