Hardware Manufacturers

I can see the merits in hardware vendors and software vendors being more or less the same thing.  Eg Apple Inc.  I mean - you know there's compatibility throughout the life of your product, and generally long into the future.  The companies that anger me to no end are the ones like Behringer.  I have bought several of their products over the years and quite frankly they are useless.  The products may be good quality and well priced for what they are - but their product support is crap.

My latest example - FCA202 - a log-cost firewire audio interface.  Supports windows XP and "maybe" vista, but certainly doesn't support any 64bit OS. 

Works fine under OS X though - so now I'm kind of being forced into getting a new sound board just for windows... just so I can listen to a couple of MP3's when I boot into bootcamp?