I feel your pain. Like a fool I purchased the card thinking the Win 8 x64 driver would work on my Win 7 x64 Notebook as Win 7 x64 Drivers have worked on my Win 8 x64 box, after trying for a few hours I found this thread and could NOT believe it.
I have been using Intel since the 8088/8086 days and still can't believe I am checking here daily for drivers!
They have released Linux and Win 8 x64 drivers but in a month no Win 7 drivers?
I use Win 8 daily, I purchased a start button program for 5 bucks and it works perfect in desktop mode, but it is not ready for my notebook at a customers location or for my Supervisor. I will not pay 200 bucks for a half baked OS to try and run on my laptop.
The US Government just upgraded to Win 7 from XP, Win 7 x64 will be around a LOT longer then Win 8, the US Government had XP's life extended how many times?
Get a CLUE Intel! The US Government PAYS EXTRA to NOT have Win 8 installed but to have Win 7 x64 Installed on brand new out of the box PC's. You think maybe THEY know something