Why DirectX 10 will never come for XP

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Sascha Benjamin Jazbec

interesting Blog from an MS guy :

Why DX10 wasnt created on XP and why it isnt in XP

http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archi...asnt-created-on-xp-and-why-it-isnt-in-xp.aspx

read full article , excerpts :

"I hope the community can appreciate my points about how the branch and
life-cycle work to make assumptions that Microsoft developed DX10 on XP not
really true.
I also hope you can appreciate the level of the change, so the community
understand the ask is a non-trivial investment of engineering resources. "
 
I dunno, just sounds like that are trying to justify it. One statement he
made that strikes me a bit odd is
"Given XP has had a 5+ year run it is hard to see how XP customers have a
strong case they were not given good value for the money."

There are several directions you can take this argument. #1, what if I just
XP in late 2005 or 2006. Assuming everyone got XP on day 1 is taking some
liberties.

I guess I don't follow where XP is a dead OS or at least I've gotten my
monies worth. There are plenty of people still running Win2k, much less XP.

While I'm sure it is a little more complicated that just releasing it to the
consumer (as that would open support issues). I think they should be more
honest about it. "We don't want to spend the money on porting it over to
work with XP". "We don't want to support it on XP if we did port it over",
and the answer they can't say, but we all know, "We make our money off
selling new OSes, So we have to come up with little lock-ins to make Vista
have more appeal"

I believe if there we're any DX10 games coming out in 2007, Vista sales
other than new PCs would be down a fair amount more. Then again, I'm a bias
Gamer who believes that gamers rule the world
 
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