CREATIVE ANNOUNCES PRODUCT SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS VISTA™

Dublin, Ireland. (SANEPR.com) March 2, 2007 -- Creative (NASDAQ: CREAF) a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products, announces its product support for Windows Vista™. The following systems are compatible with the new operating system, either natively or via dedicated drivers.
Creative MP3 players
The ZEN Vision:M, ZEN V Plus, ZEN V, ZEN Vision W, ZEN Vision, ZEN Nano Plus, ZEN MicroPhoto, ZEN Sleek Photo, ZEN Micro*, ZEN Sleek*, ZEN Xtra*, ZEN Touch*, MuVo (all versions) and MuVo2 all have full Vista support and can be used with Windows Media Player 11 or Creative MediaSource. Users of the current edition of MediaSource can download an update from europe.creative.com

Creative Sound Blaster sound cards
The Sound Blaster X-Fi series, Sound Blaster Audigy series, Audigy 2, Audigy 2 ZS, Audigy 2 ZS Notebook, Audigy 4, Audigy SE, Audigy LS and Live! 24 bit offer driver support, available from europe.creative.com. The USB Sound Blaster range including Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit, MP3+, Connect and Surround 5.1 will also be supported.

Creative's innovative Xmod USB audio upgrade offers native Vista support.

As Vista does not support multi-channel audio via DirectX in games, Creative has developed a free application, Creative ALchemy, which converts DirectSound 3D and EAX calls into OpenAL calls, enabling gamers with an X-Fi card to experience under Vista the same multi-channel audio they had under Windows XP.
Creative ALchemy can be downloaded from http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx

Creative webcams
The Live! Cam Optia offers native Vista support. Live! Cam Voice, Live! Cam Video IM and IM Pro, Live! Cam Vista IM and Live! Cam Notebook Pro will offer Vista support via driver download from europe.creative.com.

* these players may require a firmware software update which can be downloaded from europe.creative.com.

About Creative Labs

Creative (Nasdaq: CREAF) is the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for the personal computer and the Internet. Famous for its Sound Blaster and for launching the multimedia revolution, Creative is now driving digital entertainment on the PC platform with products like the award-winning Zen and MuVo Personal Audio Players. The company's innovative hardware, proprietary technology, applications and services leverage the Internet, enabling consumers to experience high-quality digital entertainment - anytime, anywhere.

Founded in 1981, Creative Technology's corporate headquarters are in Singapore. Creative Labs Europe was established in 1993 to capture a bigger share of the growing European market. Its Headquarters and Operations/Technical Centre (EOTC) facility are based in Dublin, Ireland, and provide an efficient, localised and customised product supply service to the European market. They also provide strategic customer support functions to Creative's sales offices in Benelux, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The European operation currently employs around 400 people.