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Windows Longhorn to make Graphics Cards more Important

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the eye-candy-overkill dept.

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.

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  1. Windows Longhorn to make Linux more important by Eric+Smith · · Score: 0, Troll

    Enough said.

  2. New Microsoft OS to be more bloated than previous by cybermint · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why isn't this even shocking to me?

  3. Re:Is this necessary by Aadain2001 · · Score: 0, Troll
    The idea being that it's better to have MS write the code once well, than to have lots of third party vendors wring the same code over and over again, some better than others.

    Ahh! Now we come to the critical issue: can MS even do this? I'd say no if their past products are any indication. Large, buggy, and an absolute mess at the code level, expecting MS to write clean, efficient, and secure code is just place silly.

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  4. Re:Great, but. by delus10n0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, no.

    Poorly coded shell extensions bring the explorer UI to a crawl.

    Also, if you've got 10+ shell extensions installed, perhaps you should re-evaluate your need for them.

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  5. Re:Microsoft never was good at copying Apple... by delus10n0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apparently you've never used an iBook or something that doesn't support OSX's GUI features 100% in hardware. It's fricken dog slow; namely because it's using the CPU to render your nice "genie out of a bottle" and transparent drop-shadowed windows.

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  6. oh how cute by otterpop378 · · Score: 1, Troll

    someone still gives a crap about windows.
    that's adorable. no really. we're happy for you.
    seriously. and in 2 years (maybe?) you can tell us how it all worked out for you. Supposing your system doesnt get owned by the time you finish installing the os.