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Windows Longhorn to make Graphics Cards more Important
Renegade334 writes "The Inquirer has a story about MS Longhorn and its need for better than entry level graphics cards. This is due to the WGF (Windows Graphics Foundation) which will merge 2D and 3D graphics operations in one, and 3D menus and interfaces that require atleast Shader 2.0 compliant cards. Supposedly it will really affect the performance of the new Microsoft OS." This has been noted before in the system requirements for Longhorn, but it would seem the full impact is slowly being realized.
Using Windows as a way to sell more hardware!
"KDE: Gets 5000% performance out of your graphics card by using our patented 'It Doesn't Use Fucking Pixel Shaders Just To Display A Fucking Menu' technology!"
Can it run Longhorn? oh wait....
In other news, Microsoft issues critical security warnings about bugs that let hackers run 3D viruses and worms natively in windows.
lol: You see no door there!
Having 10-20% of the price of your PC being in a bare minimum graphics card just seems ridiculous. What's next? Requiring 5.1 digital sound with multichannel reverb so Longhorn can tell the user "You've got mail!" ?
Trolling is a art,
It's the end of the world I tell ya. End of cheap PC's, an affordable mac. What's next? 100 dollar iPods?
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Wow! A 3D Blue Screen of Death? That would look really cool with Shader 2.0
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
So what do unix users have to do with Windows?
Noone's threatening your Korn shell. Text mode isn't going anywhere. You can keep your CGA monitor. Relax.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Grandpa & Grandma will probably be dead by the time Longhorn comes out.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
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> will be low-end by the time [Longhorn] actually gets released.
Yeah, but the Open Source and Free Software drivers for video cards will still be stuck at the level of the Radeon 7500 when it comes to 3D acceleration, due to the (unfortunately, for valid competitive-analysis-type business reasons) concerns of video hardware manufacturers (namely ATI vs. nVIDIA) when it comes to disclosing specifications.
And then Gates and Jobs will both be able to point at a Linux box and say "See, its user interface has just barely gotten to the point of XP".
That's fine if you're a server administrator, but if your goal is Linux World [Desktop] Domination, it's gonna hurt.
It won't play "You've got mail!" unless it's in Windows Media format, and can verify with AOL that you're licensed to play it.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
if they build it into internet explorer, how long before somebody finds a bug in the jpeg library that allows for a webpage to beable to set fire to your graphics card with a simple javascript?
but seriously, rendering a GUI with the GPU is a good thing.
If you have a REALLY crap graphics card, Windows longhorn will automatically switch to text adventure mode.
You have opened a window.
Above you you see the Titlebar, it has a Close button.
There is lots of text on the window, looking closely, it appears to say 'slashdot'.
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
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Wow, we are treated now with 3d buffer overflows... yummy...
Thank you Bill...
So is Longhorn going to have any new useful features or just sit there and look pretty?
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
Get Windows Longhorn, the ultimate bloatware! Now complete with 3D icons, 4D textpad, and a fully integrated Doom 3 filebrowser so that you can truly "hunt" for that missing file. It's so sluggish you'll almost go back in time.
But you could probably dance to the [click] - [cli-click] - [hNnph]
Repeating over and over, again!
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Never been known to fail..."