3dconnexion Spaceball 5000 Windows 7 driver - Perturbed

Is anyone else a little upset about the situation with 3dconnexion and Windows 7 drivers? We purchased a lot of Spaceball 5000 USB devices for almost \$400 a piece about 4 years ago. Now we are moving from Windows XP x64 to Windows 7 x64 for our new Solidworks computers.  3dconnexion tells me the device is no longer supported.  If I do purchase new devices, I will look elsewhere.

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