Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive

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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Re:Why do you need that transition effect?

[humanrev]

Put it this way - Slashdot is the ONLY place on the net where people have such... different views. The engineers I work with don't get fussed about such crap.

As for my account, I've posted on Slashdot before using different accounts because I don't like to let people trace my history, so this is just my latest. The fact you therefore assume that I'm a kid tells me more than you know.

I've given up. Too many people live in their own bubble here. I was just trying to challenge the misconceptions a lot of people have here about normal folks who don't hang around in their fields, and how they see technology. But too many people here are fucking weirdos and I just don't want to have anything to do with them, thinking about.

So until my next account... bye....