Vista and Dx10

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I just read from one gaming magazine that dx10 is going to ge released ONLY
to Windows Vista.

Is this true?

If it is then Microsoft spits to face for all those who are purhased legal
windows XP.
Because after Dx10 is released all games are using it and all who wants play
new PC -games needs to have Vista.

I think this is again (like with IE) wrong usage of dominating market
position.
 
And if you actually read up on DX10 you'll see it's built wholly on the new
graphic subsystem that's introduced in Vista. They'd have to actually
rewrite XP to make it DX10 compatible.
 
Then how do you play older games in Windows Vista? After all Vista is
advertised to be gamers OS.
 
Would you one moment consider that Windows xp is over 5 years old and Vista
uses now Graphics outside the Kernel like Linux - you cannot backport this
new Way of handling the UI to the Way NT/XP treated it.

DirectX and the new graphical Subsystem goes hand in hand. This has not only
to do with Aero.

Vista will be the Number One Gaming OS for Desktop PCs within the next
years.
The new games-explorer and the age-restricting system show clearly that this
is the goal.

And by god : Microsoft is a company. They have developers to pay and
millions of customers to satisfy.And if they have new ideas than we should
be thankful for it. If you prefer sticking with outdated OS - then don't
bash here.

If I go and install Windows 95 and this or that isn't supported now - well
.... isn't that my fault ?

Sure, Xp has costed lots of money. 98 has costed, 3.11 wasn't cheap - but
Boy : Times change and if you must buy a new OS all 4-5 years is that too
much cost ?

People claim "Windows is too expensive!"

Vista Home Premium Full will go by around 199 US$ , OEM/Systembuilder and
the like versions for less..

How many new PC-games do you buy in one year ? each one of them goes by
40-50 US$

So the Middle-Class Vista will cost about what 4 Games will cost

- how long do you use your games ?

- how long do you use your Operating System, that will be supported for at
least five years with Updates,Extras and the like. Ten years of
security-issues-fixes, ServicePacks at least... ?

SBJ




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I have had Windows XP PRO for two years now. Before it I was using Win2000.
So after reading this article I tought that I had to buy new OS again. I
agree that Vista may be the best OS ever but I still should be able to play
most of the new games at least three years from now.
And from what I understand from replies to my other post (accident) that
will be case.
I don't just want be good bet customer runnning to the store when something
new comes out. When I buy something I expect to get worth to my money. So if
I have doubts to that where else I bash .

By the way "Sascha Benjamin Jazbec" I think that you should be working to
Microsoft as an advertiser.
 
I have had Windows XP PRO for two years now. Before it I was using Win2000.
So after reading this article I tought that I had to buy new OS again. I
agree that Vista may be the best OS ever but I still should be able to play
most of the new games at least three years from now.
And from what I understand from replies to my other post (accident) that
will be case.
I don't just want be good bet customer runnning to the store when something
new comes out. When I buy something I expect to get worth to my money. So if
I have doubts to that where else I bash .
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You are getting you moneys worth out of XP, it's just that if you buy
something that's 3 years old you don't get as much as something that is
new. Had you bought it when it was new then it would easily have least
the three years you expect to be able to play the games.

Technology (including software) moves at a rapid pace, if you want
something to last you have to buy/get it when it's new, the longer you
wait the bigger chance it will be obsolete. When I bought my previous
computer I settled for a mid-range CPU and thought "I'll upgrade in a
year", one week later Intel tells med "We wont build any more Slot 1
processors", that's life.
 
Then how do you play older games in Windows Vista? After all Vista is
advertised to be gamers OS.
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Backward compatibility is seldom any problem, it's forward compatibility
that's hard. In worst case you can always hope that the hardware is so
much faster in the next generation that you can emulate the previous
version, the same can never be true since you can never know before hand
what will be the next version.
 
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