Over the last couple of months we, the press, have had dozens of emails from tech companies saying 'we support Vista'. Well, I recently got an email that should have been entitled 'Vista supports us'.

It turns out Vista comes preloaded with drivers for 100 NXP TV Tuners. For the confused NXP was, up until September 2006, a Philips owned division. NXP makes the chips that power some ASUStek, Avermedia and Pinnacle TV tuner cards.

I find this thoroughly bizarre since Hauppauge, who sells more TV cards than any other manufacturer, didn't get a single driver into Vista.

Top marks to NXP for getting them into Vista, especially when some companies are so lax about driver support. My Geforce 5600 was a perfectly capable card for my uses under XP - Nvidia has castrated it under Vista, even with Aero turned off.

My Vista efforts were dashed again when I struggled to get my 18 month old Trust BT446 graphics tablet working.

When I asked Trust if a Vista driver would soon appear I was given this semi-literate response: "Regarding your doubt, we regret to inform that the drivers for Vista compatible for this device won't be released because this product it is already discontinued."

I asked Microsoft about driver support and they told me Vista supports 1.5million products out of the box with 14,000 drivers on the disc and 16,000 more through Windows update. Perhaps I'm just unfortunate with my choice of products.