Matrox Screws Win2k Users

Working for a company that designs and manufactures various computer and communications hardware, I can tell you that the people here had major pains with Win2k and the WDM. We support a LOT of OS'es...Lynx, BeOS, AIX, UNIX, LINUX, OS2, DOS, Solaris, QNX, IRIX, roughly 18,000 other *IX flavors, Win3.x, Win9x/ME, WinNT 3/4, and several others I try to forget =) ...none of them have been a bigger pain in the ass than Win2k. One of our PCMCIA products apparently will need significant changes made in hardware just to work under Win2k....sure you can blame our product, but the same card works under virtually all other OS'es we've written drivers for...only 2k has any problem with it. Therefore, it's not surprising to me that Matrox is not supporting it's "older" products under Win2k.

how about "Win 2k Screws Matrox Users" instead?

Matrox ought to pack their bags, sell their ramdac tech know how to nvidia and get the fuck out of town.
from the opengl debacle to this shit
aswell as failing to invest in high end 3d market
screw these silly ass canucks

I hate to be the jackass that says things like this, but...

Read the forum post more carefully. I think they're only cancelling hardware capture/playback for a certain video format, MJPEG. It looks like software capture can still be done and fed into a software MPEG encoder.

It looks like they'll continue support for W2K for 2D, 3D and everything else.

Matrox did this before with their OpenGL implementation on their brand new G200.

People who bought it and got sucky OpenGL kept on believing that Matrox would come back with amazing drivers. They didn't. And for the same reason; "Its too hard, we are going to move resources to our Next Video Card."

Thats why Matrox is a has-been company.

gg matrox, business users = win2k users primarily...ati and nvidia are gonna own em

"This is really is too bad"

*snicker*

HAHAHAhaha.

That's cool, I guess they figure no one will buy XP...

actually no one will buy their cards...

WinK2? Microsoft naming their next release after a mountain?

This is fucking bullshit. Matrox provides mostly business class cards -- but the professional OS is win2k. Nice thinking, matrox.

matrox is a bunch of pussys. wah wah wah, the os is too hard to learn

Well this isn't good...

Heh, their primary customer base is going to be professionals - who will be using win2k

Back when I had Win2K RC1 (late November 1999), I had a GeForce, and no Win2K drivers. I simply used the NT4 drivers. They worked okay, though I had zero Direct3D functionality (aside from software).