Last week a field rep from Logitech brands was in our sales office doing her normal ‘song & dance” to attempt to win us over with our buying power to look into purchasing forward for a nice discount due to inventory overages with Logitech and other brands, normally I dont waste my time on rep’s but this time we invited our rep into our board room and let her go into her spill about Logitech and we had only 1 interuption.”Have you heard any rumor or straight talk about Logitech getting on the ball with Windows 7? As we have very large clients that handle 10’s of thousands of external devices daily in their enviroments and preparing for the future those same Director of I.T. As Co-Owner of a Midwest Wholesaler for Technology I’m embarressed to listen to my clients including numerous retail outlets whom are hearing loud and clear from the end users “Why would Logitech and all its great release’s throughout the year’s trip and fall flat on their faces during a strong recession and not be on the ball with a beta almost a year ago when Windows 7 was released to Technet and other Alpha testers”. Yet, Logitech doesn’t fail to disappoint, by not providing a compressed version of the barebone drivers for manual install.Īs a reseller of Logitech items, I am lost for words that Logitech has taken this long to consider jumping onboard with MS Windows 7 (Alpha, Beta, RC1) and to finally try a beta version. P.S.: I’ve successfully used windows XP drivers with windows 7, since they have the same architecture. Now I can hardly be bothered to even consider purchasing any of your products. You used to be my favourite webcam company, and kept recommending you to everyone asking about a webcam. So right now I have no usable webcam, and I’m thinking that these will most likely be the last 30 seconds I’ve spent trying to use a logitech product.Ī friend of mine is using a Philips webcam on Windows 7. Well, that failed as well, but then again, I only spent about 30 seconds trying that. Didn’t work, compatibility issues, so I tried to unpack the executable setup file, to extract the drivers and try to install them myself, since you’re unable to provide a nicely zipped driver package that I can just install myself. Then I went on downloading the xp 64 bit driver, and try to install it. Surprise!!!! Yet again, no drivers available, at least at this time for windows 7 (should I remind you that other manufacturers have had drivers available for a couple of months now ?). Eventually, I switched to windows 7, 64 bit edition, and decided to install my webcam. Regardless of this, I went with the flow, and kept using the newer, worse webcam, since I had no other choice. I purchased the newer webcam, since I was thinking there’s absolutely, positively no possible way an 8 year old webcam can be better than one manufactured this year (regarding the image quality). Actually, particularly regarding the drivers, since even in manual mode, it decides that it knows better than me how it should work, thus turning the exposure/compensation down, regardless of the absolute lack of light (didn’t have this problem with the older webcam). The reason I was so frustrated is because I purchased a quickcam express recently, and I find it to be utter crap, particularly regarding the drivers. The reply came, a very polite reply even, that summed up told me that there’s nothing that could be done. Initially I sent out a support email regarding an older webcam (the quickcam traveller, which is by all standards THE best webcam I’ve seen in the 8 years since I’ve had it) that didn’t have windows XP 圆4 drivers. There will be much more to share as the official Windows 7 launch draws near, but for now I just want to let you know that we’ll be ready when Windows 7 is ready! I think this will make it much easier for people to customize their mice, keyboards, webcams and other hardware attachments to their liking – and to take advantage of some of the features you might not have known how to configure in the past. You’ll be able to click on the picture of a device and configure it, and you’ll even be able to access Logitech software through Device and Printers. ![]() The beauty of Devices and Printers is that it provides one place where you can see all the peripherals attached to your computer, including your mouse and keyboard. One of my favorite new features is called Device and Printers. Rest assured, not only will we be supporting Windows 7, but we’ve been working closely with the Windows 7 team at Microsoft to improve the experience people will have when using our mice and keyboards with Windows 7. As one of the product managers in the Control Devices business unit (that’s Logitech’s way of saying mice and keyboards), I’m getting more and more questions about our support for Windows 7, particularly with today’s announcement from Microsoft.
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