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Microsoft: We've Been Killing PC Gaming

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-of-them-to-notice dept.

MCV has an article up discussing a new intitiative that Microsoft will be launching soon to re-establish the Windows PC as a gaming platform, ahead of the launch of Vista. From the article: "Microsoft has pledged to 'put the game back into Windows', admitting that its lack of investment in PC has been 'killing' the platform. The firm has outlined to MCV details of an 18-month drive to establish Games For Windows as a platform with the credibility of PlayStation and Xbox, ahead of the launch of the Vista operating system."

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  1. Re:What? by AgentX24 · · Score: 2, Informative

    WGF is DirectX.

  2. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    WGF is dead:

    http://theinquirer.net/?article=25902

  3. Re:Its lack of investment in PC has been killing i by shadow_slicer · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not that they provided a competing proprietary standard, but that they only provided a broken implementation of the open one.
    With openGL Microsoft did basically the same thing they did/are doing with Java (they shipped a broken VM and then now are trying to replace Java with C#).
    Microsoft only supports the very first version of the standard, which is from 1992. Most openGL applications require a newer version or extensions that are not present in the version that comes with windows. This paved the way nicely for DirectX which came out 3 years after openGL.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opengl#History