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Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming?

Posted by Zonk on from the stay-oofff-the-mooooors dept.

simoniker writes "In an opinion piece, casual game publisher WildTangent's CEO Alex St. John (himself a Microsoft veteran and one of the DirectX creators) has sharply criticized some of Windows Vista's features as they related to video game creation, noting: 'We have found many of the security changes planned for Vista alarming and likely to present sweeping challenges for PC gaming, especially for online distributed games. The central change that impacts all downloadable applications in Vista is the introduction of Limited User Accounts. LUA's can already be found in Windows XP, but nobody uses them because of the onerous restrictions they place on usability. In Vista, LUA's are mandatory and inescapable.'" Meanwhile, the word has also come down that games will be on the Zune by Summer of next year.

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  1. Ok. by AltGrendel · · Score: 5, Funny
    Meanwhile, the word has also come down that games will be on the Zune by Summer of next year.

    I'm sure that will make both of those Zune owners very happy.

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  2. Re:mandatory and inescapable. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Do you want to install our useful software?"
        - No
    "Please! It does all this neat stuff! Don't you want it installed?"
        - No
    "Okay... so, you're saying you DON'T want it installed?"
        - No

    "Good! Install progress: 22%..."

  3. Sure... by vga_init · · Score: 1, Funny

    It will be a cold day in hell when Windows isn't the best operating system for gaming. It's the only thing that keeps the ignorant masses from switching to Linux, after all. :)