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Microsoft Will Not Release DirectX 10 for Windows XP
(old news - 05:57PM Friday May 26 2006)
by Anton Shilov

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest maker of software, will not release next-generation graphics application programming interface (API) called DirectX 10 for the currently shipping Windows XP operating system (OS), instead, the company will keep the new API strictly for the forthcoming Windows Vista OS, despite earlier assumptions about DirectX 10 for the XP.

During a DirectX 10-related event in London, UK, Richard Huddy, ATI Technologies’ software developers relations chief, said that Microsoft’s Vista will integrate DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 APIs for different types of hardware, but the current Windows XP will not get DirectX 10 support, as suggested some rumours earlier. For end users this means that to get the most advantages of the new-generation graphics processing units (GPUs), the new OS will be required.

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AB
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What else is new?

Another not-so-subtle bullying tactic By Mr. Gates & Co.
And don't worry, there's more to follow. Why do the right thing when it's just as easy, and more profitable, to not?
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Guilty as charged.
permalink · 2006-05-28 16:17:07 · Reply to this

redxii
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Re: What else is new?

You can install Linux. No worrying about whether or not there will be a new DirectX version again.
permalink · 2006-05-29 00:38:16 · Reply to this

AB
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Re: What else is new?

said by redxii See Profile :

You can install Linux. No worrying about whether or not there will be a new DirectX version again.
And when my (already legitimately paid for, not to mention expensive) XP is obsolete, I will be doing JUST that!! Or if nor Linux, then something else non-Microsoft. But that's still awhile down the road. And doesn't change in the LEAST BIT my original comment. A company can do the right thing or it can do the selfish, purely profit-driven thing. Shocked, I am, at which way Microsoft has chosen to go (NOT!).
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Guilty as charged.
permalink · 2006-05-29 10:03:26 · Print · Reply to this
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