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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!"
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,
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!
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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