p jayant wrote:
> Has ATI noted that Microsoft with its offering of the Windows Media
> Centre, is in the process of banking on the weakness of ATI by offering
> a ready-made and easy to implement solution for all the multi-media
> applications ordinary users want to see working on their PC and TV at
> home? If WMC does not wipe out ATI's Video and TV Tuner Cards
> business, it at least has the potential to bite off a solid chunk of
> the ATI market for these products.
> Over years, ATI has been putting newer and better video cards on the
> market without ever providing flawless support for its older cards,
> compelling customers to migrate to the newer cards. The lynchpin has
> been the set of drivers - called the Catalyst set for the last 5 years
> - and the MMC. ATI has been advising customers to constantly update to
> the latest set of Catalyst drivers and the MMC but never provided
> consolidated information on which combination of Catalyst and MMC
> versions works flawlessly for each generation of video cards. That is
> why, as is evident from the postings on this NewsGroup, the number of
> dissatisfied customers ATI has is several times that of those who are
> satisfied. Most of the satisfied customers are those who have brought
> the latest generation of card and have not yet had the experience of
> upgrading the software. Once they experience it, they can now walk off
> to the WMC path.
> If ATI wants to save itself from the doomsday WMC is bringing on ATI in
> due course, it is high time ATI buckles up and straightens out its
> support for all the Cards which customers are still using in the
> market, rather than put newer versions of hardware and software on the
> market, dumping the customers with whose money they built up their
> business.
This is about a 0.01 on the troll-o-meter.
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