no drivers avaliable for microsoft force feed back controller

I am glad that microsoft cannot even support there own
controllers that they made so you could upgrade to a
newer version of software for the computer and then have
to buy a new game controller, if anyone has any
information on how to make a sidewinder force feedback
pro joystick work on windows xp please let me know, since
microsoft doesnot want to put out any update drivers to
run on anything but windows 95 or 98,
thanks for any help
brian