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Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive

Posted by Unknown on from the year-of-the-linux-desktop dept.

BluPhenix316 writes "Microsoft has made Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive. I think this is merely an update to make Direct X more integrated with Windows 8. Is this going to be the trend? To lock you into the OS updates so Windows 7 doesn't last as long as Windows XP has?" The update is pretty minor, but it does add Stereoscopic rendering, and there seemed to be an implication that no new DirectX updates after this will be made for Windows 7.

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  1. Re:Let's hope Steam on Linux gathers... steam by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux sucks as a desktop os

  2. Re:Doesn't matter by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Windows 8 is fucking good. No one is downgrading, and if they are, they're stupid

  3. Re:What do you expect? by TheGoodNamesWereGone · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    W8 is shaping up to be another Me, or Vista. M$ is doing everything it can to force it down peoples' throats.

  4. Re:Doesn't matter by reboot246 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I have mod points, but I didn't see an option for "Idiot".

  5. Re:Let's hope Steam on Linux gathers... steam by bmo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > having too many options (KDE)

    This is a nonsense argument.

    Stick with being a prisoner of Microsoft.

    >treating your wife as if she's dumb.

    You're sexist too. Wonderful!

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    BMO

  6. Re:How to get rid of all Windows boxes, forever? by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck you for trying to discredit my opinion. FUCK YOU. who are you to fucking say whos opinion is valid or not.

    Just try the OS. If you've tried windows 7 and you feel 7 was the best windows OS... then obviously its possible that MS could have made an even better improved windows right?

  7. Re:Let's hope Steam on Linux gathers... steam by bmo · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >This is frankly amazingly useful for my wife as a lot of the supplied source material for her Masters course is presented in PDF image format. NOTHING like this exists in Linux because Adobe haven't ported Acrobat to Linux, and there are no alternatives

    Image based PDFs consist entirely of TIFFs. These can be extracted and procesed like any other TIFFs. There has been TIFF>OCR>TXT on Linux since last century. Indeed, something like this is scriptable and can be done for entire directories of PDFs.

    You're dumb.

    Bye.

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    BMO