THe Windows team was all gung ho on replacing fully working desktop apps with crappy applets designed for phones. Ericka Long the new Windows head was a HUGE fan and was a proponent of the ribbon. The WIndows product manager under her was in promotional videos all smiling and proud of metro saying they are all beautiful and modern it is. Sinsofsky's departure came very very short after the Surface and WIndows 8 which makes me believe the decision to fire him came months ago!
Bill Gates himself approved of letting him go according to Windows Fan Boi site www.neowin.net. If they fired him right before the launch the shareholders would freak out and it would send consumers and OEMs a message that Windows 8 is crap!
So the only logical conclusion is he said NO! We stick with Windows 7 UI and add Metro for tablets or an addon. Gates and Balmer chose the tablet UI in 2010 after the other tablet product failed. So both of them over ruled Sinsofsky and went under him with these people to get Metro everywhere and fire him after the release.
If it has a limited read and writes before it goes bad it means I am not giving up my mechanical drive. I do database stuff and run games like SWTOR and WOW that pound it hard when loading gigs and gigs of data over and over.
UGH I would kill myself to use XP again in that way.
The instant search was my only reason I could give myself to tolerate Vista on my slow laptop. It became nice as I had a lot of files from finance, HR, and other things. The instant search does more than just find programs without a mouse.
It can find documents and even text within documents, such as Sales for Acme 2009 etc. You then have both the excel file with the data and the word report you wrote 3 years ago. Neat hu? I like it too on portables where I used to carry a mouse with me. KNow I use the touchpad just a little bit and can open several things fast. Also I have A TON of entries in all programs. I just run some adobe programs, pc utilities, VS, and Office yet have 12 entries alone. Instant search means I never see that ugly mess.
My system I got for $549 had a nice ATI 5750 as well. I wanted a decent gaming system that was only 15% slower for 50% of the price. An intel one at the time would give me FPS in the single digits.
With the speed of the processors these days I could care less about the minor speed. It is a great value for a multi purpose machine that I couldn't get with Intel and Nvidia.
I love the fact that my $549 special I bought 2 years ago is hex-core and has virtualization to run many VMs in VMWare. A shocking surprise to say the least where I do not need a XEON workstation to simulate networks. It was the best ROI for bang for buck I ever made. Sigh
They want their own CPU and intel wont give the flexibility they want. Apple would gain their own GPU to tinker plus with bulldozer (or whatever they call it now) can have a nice APU for thei MBAs or IPADS with the x86 port replaced with an ARM.
Of course that would suck for us as I am typing this on an all AMD/ATI phenomII from Asus. But good for Asus investors since it looks like they wont survive this new recession that is starting.
Not in looking for worse workers for cheaper prices, but rather use someones speciality.
FB knows marketing and advertising and will do that for you so you can focus on managing your sports franchise. For that tiny price you hit a mass market that you could not do yoruself unless you run expensive TV ads, which again is outsourcing to the TV industry etc.
Well if companies stop using them then FB will respond by lowering their prices. That is capitalism 101. Advertising and marketing aint cheap.
I do respect Mr. Cuban. I watch him on sharktank and out of all the clueless MBA morons, he knows his stuff and is intelligent and very hard working to make sure his clients are happy and performing well.
It is true I read Ford was paying $1 million for advertising on FB with full page ads. That is crazy, but if you think about it more eyeballs look at FB than TV without DVRs in 2012. If that $3000 per tweets for a game represents just a 10% increase in sales that can pay for itself easily!
If Cuban does not think that is fair he can fund another FB startup.
No one really wants to browse a corporate site unless they are applying for jobs.
I think $3,000 is a great deal for NBA fans who are looking for Maverick tickets. Same is true with selling custom merchandise. People like to read things that interest in them in their facebook unlike common disruptive advertising we do not give a shit about. If we didn't care we would not have liked it etc.
The facebook likes increase means you can market to a greater audience. If you people just went to your regular website then you couldn't (in your comic book example) advertise your new series as effectively. With Facebook & Youtube a few $5,000 here or there can generate $300,000 in return in more revenue. That is a great ROI if you ask me?
In addition, most people who are not poor have DVRs now and fastforward commercials. They see more advertsing on FB than TV.
And effective too with marketing. $3,000 might seem expensive for us but if you have million fans and make hundreds of millions then the fee is a drop in the bucket that will generate far more revenue than spamming people for tickets and events.
Too bad. Not to sound like a dick but you do not expect to buy a car (yes the hated car analogy) and expect free service forever. Otherwise everyone woudl drive 30 year old cars with 200k miles on them if someone else footed the bill.
Corps are the users who see it and like it. MS and webmasters such as myself have to put our feet down and say no. It is your problem. Most of these users you describe use IE as smart users have upgraded mostly to better browsers. Yes new apis like.NET 4.5 are out that are not compatible with XP. Metro apps and cloud apps, and every app under the sun integrated to the net are part of Office 2013.
Eventually they will be expected to be integrated together inside office itself or Metro. These users will get hacked over and over too. It is not arm twisting as they were arm twisting us forcing external costs to us to make IE 6 hacks in 2011 is rediculous!
Ordinary users had it made for more than enough time and it is not arm twisting to stop sinking money for them. Backporting significantly increases the cost of development and it is not fair to early adopters who want to see HTML 5 and CSS 3 actions and run applets but can't due to a 11 year old OS and browser.
Whats wrong with one tablet that can act as a PC too? Metro is not perfect yet, but I can see this nice on the road if it came with Office and Skydrive. Go back to the room and I can view my documents and do a powerpoint presentation with it as well.
I was looking up some old things I wrote a decade ago. Want to know why those machines are in landfills?
Because Office took 2 minutes to load up. Windows 98 sucked goatballs if you think XP had bad security and took 4 minutes to startup. Java applets took 2 minutes to load. Today that is unheard of but back then we were used to it. Remember using photoshop on a pentium I 166 mhz (fast back in 1996) and doing a simple blur had a bar and a good 70 seconds to complete?
Today you can do a blur brush instantly over and over just like clicking. Windows 7 is a huge upgrade in terms of security, speed, instant search, and of course support for modern hardware like SSDs and GPU accelerated graphics. Yes office users use these and HTML 5 and flash use them. On your smart phone notice how when you move your finger down on the browser is slides fluidily?
Do that on an XP machine clip clip clip and choppy. IE 9 is smooth mostly, and Firefox is finally getting there in GPU acceleration but still behind your pathetic phone. Why? Because if XP support in directX 9 is holding it back as it can't do font rendering and smooth scrolling as DirectX11 and your smartphone can.
Security is a big issue too for XP. It is time to let it go as you would not be mad for the next angry birds not working on your IPhone1 circa 2007 or Android 1.6 phone.
Wrong. There are still hundreds of millions of users with perfectly good computers that are running XP. They don't want to upgrade and migrate all their data and settings. They don't want to pay for new software that will let them do the things they do already. Hell, the feature touted in the thread summary (stereoscopic rendering) is already on Windows XP in OpenGL (and has been forever, including lots of effects that Microsoft forced you to get Vista for). Requiring an OS upgrade for simple features has nothing to do with technology (since OpenGL has no problem) - it is all about bilking you for more money.
According to StatCounter XP usage is now tying MacOSX and Vista usage! Look under United States and add November statistics to do the calculation?
XP is a security nightmare. THe only place where XP and IE 6 are huge is CHina. Outside of that market it is dying. It is time to move on and stop fearing change. XP security is really bad just like IE 6 which came with it as the grandparent stated was from a different era where a good password is all you needed and oh stay out of websites you do not know etc.
Today, you get hacked by just having flash out of date or java installed through an infected ad network. I setup a new install of WIndows 7 just the other day and someone hit the blue E and BAM msn.com had an ad. Had to re-image the damn thing. XP lacks ASLR, DEP (except on a few services), and heap-spray protection. ASLR = random address layering (out of order). All you need to do to hack an XP box is know which ram addresses core dll files use. You can do this as a regular user.
Just insert some code by overflowing a buffer or integer in XP and BAM your code is running as admin, even if the code started as a regular user. Dep and ASLR with Windows 7 can stop this. VC10 has bounds checking when a program crashes to prevent loss of control... again does not work on XP. XP does not seperate processes and priveldges and even impersonates administrator and hardware devices... wow.
XP - can't scale beyond 2 cores efficiently - SATA driver can't multitask with command queing - Swaps like a mofo due to a terrible paging algorithm (double pennalty if you use the default SATA driver) even if you have plenty of ram - Slower and shitty graphics due to not supporting WDDM and a compuser below DirectX11 and the hardware. This makes your computer more stable - Driver BSOD protection - No UEFI support - No Trim SSD Support - No modern browser support after 2014 (Chrome and FF will drop it)
I assume if you work in IT (like most slashdotters) that you are under 30 and are used to behavior that dictates run unupdated ancient platforms but DO NOT TOUCH IT. THose of use over 35 remember doing it every 2- 3 years like your phones.
It is irresponsible and dangerous to run XP today and especially after next year. It is time to move on my friend. It is 2012 now. Your PC is not an appliance like a fridge if it is internet enabled. We wont support you anymore and it wont be our problem for not supporting IE 6- 8 and XP. That problem is yours.
In other news, Google releases android 4.2 with a new camera, a new keyboard, and smoother rendering. They aren't porting any of these features back to 2.3 or 4.0. Is this what it's come to?
Linux has incorporated btrfs into the 3.x kernel and isn't porting it back to the 2.4 kernel. Is this what it's come to? Etc. etc. etc. Yes, this is Slashdot, but the MS bashing was played out sometime around 2006. If you're going to pick on them, at least pick something legitimate and don't whine about them not backporting features ad-infinitum.
The XP era changed everything. People expect 10 years of support and enabled people to be set in their ways and hate change. It also made IT look like a cost center since no business is shutting down by keeping such legacy software.
As a result slashdotters freak out because those under 30 who work in IT are conditioned to never upgrade and do not want to be shafted by obsolete platforms as they can't ever change etc.
People upgrade phones and it does not reignite fear and panic like upgrading your OS.
MS needs to change this. First by making IE an annual update (they dropped the ball on IE 10), making Windows an annual or bi-annual update like in years past. If MS did this then people wont be locked into platforms anymore like they are today and get all bitchy when their OS can't use modern hardware and features not designed when it was made.
First of all, you didn't use the proper "M$" when referring to Microsoft, and on top of that you tried to be reasonable and did not bring up throwing chairs or monkey boy or Bob or even mention BSDs one time.
And not a single cuss word.
I'm not sure you and Slashdot are a good fit.
How about...
It is more complicated than that thanks to the retarded monkeys at M$ that they call developers. Inferior to OpenGL, DirectX requires WDDM (an evil scheme to implement DRM to satisfy Hollywood, destroy the western economy, and is also shown to cause cancer in rats in some studies) which is aero and 3D composition GPU support starting with DX 10. FUCKING WDDM 1.2 is not compatible with any other kernel except SCO Xenix aka Openserver that Balmer stole and renamed Vista.... A rewrite would be needed that would make WIndows 7 not Windows 7 anymore and break video and CAD software and piss off the corporate users which was done on purpose to make M$ more money and to satisfy Sinsosky's Saddist fetishes.
DirectX 11.1 uses this in an abstraction layer brilliantly thought through by Balmer throwing a chair at a Window at a Windows and seeing the hole giving a visual metaphor of how much the aero glass needed the abstraction by the ratio of the hole size.
This is why IE 9 is not available for XP as MS thought Windows XP too good to make a decent OS. It has nothing to do with MicroShaft forcing users to upgrade. Its smooth graphics and font rendering require all that to make it smoother than FF or Chrome which rely on DirectX 9. IE 6 still has the best so far as Sinsosky's just orgasmed thinking of the webmasters who have to support it!! IE 10 as a result is Win 8 only at the moment until it is rewritten for the older WDDM 1.1 and DIrectX11 which will destroy the whole internet and require each SSL certificate user to purchase a SQL License ala Oracle RDMS style with an oath to sell their children into slavery.... then the talent agent sat there for the longest time. He said hmm that is an interesting product what do you all call it?
Balmer: THE ARISTROCRATS!!!
Ok how was this? Can I get my slashdot card back now?
ONly ATI 5600 series or high card from 2010 are required! THat is a bumb considering some ATI HD 4870 SLI users who blew big $$$ for their gaming rigs just 2 years ago are shit out of luck with Windows 8.
Now I know why as only very recent cards support 11.1 shaders.
It is more complicated than that. DirectX requires WDDM which is aero and 3D composition GPU support starting with DX 10. WDDM 1.2 is not compatible with any other kernel. A rewrite would be needed that would make WIndows 7 not Windows 7 anymore and break video and CAD software and piss off the corporate users.
DirectX 11.1 uses this in an abstraction layer.
This is why IE 9 is not available for XP. It has nothing to do with MS forcing users to upgrade. Its smooth graphics and font rendering require all that to make it smoother than FF or Chrome which rely on DirectX 9. IE 10 as a result is Win 8 only at the moment until it is rewritten for the older WDDM 1.1 and DIrectX11.
Shit games today still require DirectX 9. Why? MS didn't want to port DirectX11.
IN actuality there are hardcore technical reasons like WDDM (the composer) being only available in WIndows Vista or higher. MS did port DirectX11 to Vista eventually as game studies still use the decade old DirectX 9.... just sad considering games need to be cutting edge. WDDM 1.2 is not available for WIndows 7 but WDDM 1.1 is. YOu could theoretically port Direct X11.1 to Windows 7. It just requires more work if MS is serious about developers using it? Otherwise they might just finally upgrade to DIrectX11 and stay there.
So Microsoft but software requires OS upgrades before people switch. People switch only when software requires. It is a catch-22 and of course software makers want to keep the Windows 7 loyalist crowd who will be even more angry and resistant to change in a decade than the XP crowd. God forbid.
WDDM 1.2 has something called a composer that schedules between CPU and GPU tasks with directX 11.1 on top. It is a major performance improvement and great for power saving features.
Unfortunately, it can't be backported to Windows 7/XP as they would no longer be Windows 7 and XP anymore as it is a kernel rewrite. IT would break corporate software which is why they love using obsolete platforms for decades as it never changes.
Well no wonder IE 10 is not available on Windows 7. All that hardware acceleration has to be redone and fine tuned for a WDDM without a composer.
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I think Steve was agaisn't METRO the whole time.
THe Windows team was all gung ho on replacing fully working desktop apps with crappy applets designed for phones. Ericka Long the new Windows head was a HUGE fan and was a proponent of the ribbon. The WIndows product manager under her was in promotional videos all smiling and proud of metro saying they are all beautiful and modern it is. Sinsofsky's departure came very very short after the Surface and WIndows 8 which makes me believe the decision to fire him came months ago!
Bill Gates himself approved of letting him go according to Windows Fan Boi site www.neowin.net. If they fired him right before the launch the shareholders would freak out and it would send consumers and OEMs a message that Windows 8 is crap!
So the only logical conclusion is he said NO! We stick with Windows 7 UI and add Metro for tablets or an addon. Gates and Balmer chose the tablet UI in 2010 after the other tablet product failed. So both of them over ruled Sinsofsky and went under him with these people to get Metro everywhere and fire him after the release.
If it has a limited read and writes before it goes bad it means I am not giving up my mechanical drive. I do database stuff and run games like SWTOR and WOW that pound it hard when loading gigs and gigs of data over and over.
What does non volatile mean if it is not durable?
The petabecquerel is an imaginary thing like orgone energy, homeopathy, human reason and Canada.
Obligatory: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120326002953/simpsons/images/8/87/Blinky_Art.png
And another thing .. there beer sucks!
UGH I would kill myself to use XP again in that way.
The instant search was my only reason I could give myself to tolerate Vista on my slow laptop. It became nice as I had a lot of files from finance, HR, and other things. The instant search does more than just find programs without a mouse.
It can find documents and even text within documents, such as Sales for Acme 2009 etc. You then have both the excel file with the data and the word report you wrote 3 years ago. Neat hu? I like it too on portables where I used to carry a mouse with me. KNow I use the touchpad just a little bit and can open several things fast. Also I have A TON of entries in all programs. I just run some adobe programs, pc utilities, VS, and Office yet have 12 entries alone. Instant search means I never see that ugly mess.
It is free. .. unless you didn't buy that Oracle RDBMS license?
My system I got for $549 had a nice ATI 5750 as well. I wanted a decent gaming system that was only 15% slower for 50% of the price. An intel one at the time would give me FPS in the single digits.
With the speed of the processors these days I could care less about the minor speed. It is a great value for a multi purpose machine that I couldn't get with Intel and Nvidia.
I hear ya.
I love the fact that my $549 special I bought 2 years ago is hex-core and has virtualization to run many VMs in VMWare. A shocking surprise to say the least where I do not need a XEON workstation to simulate networks. It was the best ROI for bang for buck I ever made. Sigh
They want their own CPU and intel wont give the flexibility they want. Apple would gain their own GPU to tinker plus with bulldozer (or whatever they call it now) can have a nice APU for thei MBAs or IPADS with the x86 port replaced with an ARM.
Of course that would suck for us as I am typing this on an all AMD/ATI phenomII from Asus. But good for Asus investors since it looks like they wont survive this new recession that is starting.
Also the case of outsourcing here makes sense.
Not in looking for worse workers for cheaper prices, but rather use someones speciality.
FB knows marketing and advertising and will do that for you so you can focus on managing your sports franchise. For that tiny price you hit a mass market that you could not do yoruself unless you run expensive TV ads, which again is outsourcing to the TV industry etc.
Well if companies stop using them then FB will respond by lowering their prices. That is capitalism 101. Advertising and marketing aint cheap.
I do respect Mr. Cuban. I watch him on sharktank and out of all the clueless MBA morons, he knows his stuff and is intelligent and very hard working to make sure his clients are happy and performing well.
It is true I read Ford was paying $1 million for advertising on FB with full page ads. That is crazy, but if you think about it more eyeballs look at FB than TV without DVRs in 2012. If that $3000 per tweets for a game represents just a 10% increase in sales that can pay for itself easily!
If Cuban does not think that is fair he can fund another FB startup.
No one really wants to browse a corporate site unless they are applying for jobs.
I think $3,000 is a great deal for NBA fans who are looking for Maverick tickets. Same is true with selling custom merchandise. People like to read things that interest in them in their facebook unlike common disruptive advertising we do not give a shit about. If we didn't care we would not have liked it etc.
The facebook likes increase means you can market to a greater audience. If you people just went to your regular website then you couldn't (in your comic book example) advertise your new series as effectively. With Facebook & Youtube a few $5,000 here or there can generate $300,000 in return in more revenue. That is a great ROI if you ask me?
In addition, most people who are not poor have DVRs now and fastforward commercials. They see more advertsing on FB than TV.
And effective too with marketing. $3,000 might seem expensive for us but if you have million fans and make hundreds of millions then the fee is a drop in the bucket that will generate far more revenue than spamming people for tickets and events.
Too bad. Not to sound like a dick but you do not expect to buy a car (yes the hated car analogy) and expect free service forever. Otherwise everyone woudl drive 30 year old cars with 200k miles on them if someone else footed the bill.
Corps are the users who see it and like it. MS and webmasters such as myself have to put our feet down and say no. It is your problem. Most of these users you describe use IE as smart users have upgraded mostly to better browsers. Yes new apis like .NET 4.5 are out that are not compatible with XP. Metro apps and cloud apps, and every app under the sun integrated to the net are part of Office 2013.
Eventually they will be expected to be integrated together inside office itself or Metro. These users will get hacked over and over too. It is not arm twisting as they were arm twisting us forcing external costs to us to make IE 6 hacks in 2011 is rediculous!
Ordinary users had it made for more than enough time and it is not arm twisting to stop sinking money for them. Backporting significantly increases the cost of development and it is not fair to early adopters who want to see HTML 5 and CSS 3 actions and run applets but can't due to a 11 year old OS and browser.
Whats wrong with one tablet that can act as a PC too? Metro is not perfect yet, but I can see this nice on the road if it came with Office and Skydrive. Go back to the room and I can view my documents and do a powerpoint presentation with it as well.
I was looking up some old things I wrote a decade ago. Want to know why those machines are in landfills?
Because Office took 2 minutes to load up. Windows 98 sucked goatballs if you think XP had bad security and took 4 minutes to startup. Java applets took 2 minutes to load. Today that is unheard of but back then we were used to it. Remember using photoshop on a pentium I 166 mhz (fast back in 1996) and doing a simple blur had a bar and a good 70 seconds to complete?
Today you can do a blur brush instantly over and over just like clicking. Windows 7 is a huge upgrade in terms of security, speed, instant search, and of course support for modern hardware like SSDs and GPU accelerated graphics. Yes office users use these and HTML 5 and flash use them. On your smart phone notice how when you move your finger down on the browser is slides fluidily?
Do that on an XP machine clip clip clip and choppy. IE 9 is smooth mostly, and Firefox is finally getting there in GPU acceleration but still behind your pathetic phone. Why? Because if XP support in directX 9 is holding it back as it can't do font rendering and smooth scrolling as DirectX11 and your smartphone can.
Security is a big issue too for XP. It is time to let it go as you would not be mad for the next angry birds not working on your IPhone1 circa 2007 or Android 1.6 phone.
Wrong. There are still hundreds of millions of users with perfectly good computers that are running XP. They don't want to upgrade and migrate all their data and settings. They don't want to pay for new software that will let them do the things they do already. Hell, the feature touted in the thread summary (stereoscopic rendering) is already on Windows XP in OpenGL (and has been forever, including lots of effects that Microsoft forced you to get Vista for). Requiring an OS upgrade for simple features has nothing to do with technology (since OpenGL has no problem) - it is all about bilking you for more money.
According to StatCounter XP usage is now tying MacOSX and Vista usage! Look under United States and add November statistics to do the calculation?
XP is a security nightmare. THe only place where XP and IE 6 are huge is CHina. Outside of that market it is dying. It is time to move on and stop fearing change. XP security is really bad just like IE 6 which came with it as the grandparent stated was from a different era where a good password is all you needed and oh stay out of websites you do not know etc.
Today, you get hacked by just having flash out of date or java installed through an infected ad network. I setup a new install of WIndows 7 just the other day and someone hit the blue E and BAM msn.com had an ad. Had to re-image the damn thing. XP lacks ASLR, DEP (except on a few services), and heap-spray protection. ASLR = random address layering (out of order). All you need to do to hack an XP box is know which ram addresses core dll files use. You can do this as a regular user.
Just insert some code by overflowing a buffer or integer in XP and BAM your code is running as admin, even if the code started as a regular user. Dep and ASLR with Windows 7 can stop this. VC10 has bounds checking when a program crashes to prevent loss of control ... again does not work on XP. XP does not seperate processes and priveldges and even impersonates administrator and hardware devices ... wow.
XP
- can't scale beyond 2 cores efficiently
- SATA driver can't multitask with command queing
- Swaps like a mofo due to a terrible paging algorithm (double pennalty if you use the default SATA driver) even if you have plenty of ram
- Slower and shitty graphics due to not supporting WDDM and a compuser below DirectX11 and the hardware. This makes your computer more stable
- Driver BSOD protection
- No UEFI support
- No Trim SSD Support
- No modern browser support after 2014 (Chrome and FF will drop it)
I assume if you work in IT (like most slashdotters) that you are under 30 and are used to behavior that dictates run unupdated ancient platforms but DO NOT TOUCH IT. THose of use over 35 remember doing it every 2- 3 years like your phones.
It is irresponsible and dangerous to run XP today and especially after next year. It is time to move on my friend. It is 2012 now. Your PC is not an appliance like a fridge if it is internet enabled. We wont support you anymore and it wont be our problem for not supporting IE 6- 8 and XP. That problem is yours.
In other news, Google releases android 4.2 with a new camera, a new keyboard, and smoother rendering. They aren't porting any of these features back to 2.3 or 4.0. Is this what it's come to?
Linux has incorporated btrfs into the 3.x kernel and isn't porting it back to the 2.4 kernel. Is this what it's come to? Etc. etc. etc. Yes, this is Slashdot, but the MS bashing was played out sometime around 2006. If you're going to pick on them, at least pick something legitimate and don't whine about them not backporting features ad-infinitum.
The XP era changed everything. People expect 10 years of support and enabled people to be set in their ways and hate change. It also made IT look like a cost center since no business is shutting down by keeping such legacy software.
As a result slashdotters freak out because those under 30 who work in IT are conditioned to never upgrade and do not want to be shafted by obsolete platforms as they can't ever change etc.
People upgrade phones and it does not reignite fear and panic like upgrading your OS.
MS needs to change this. First by making IE an annual update (they dropped the ball on IE 10), making Windows an annual or bi-annual update like in years past. If MS did this then people wont be locked into platforms anymore like they are today and get all bitchy when their OS can't use modern hardware and features not designed when it was made.
What, are you new here?
That is NOT how we react to Microsoft stories,
First of all, you didn't use the proper "M$" when referring to Microsoft, and on top of that you tried to be reasonable and did not bring up throwing chairs or monkey boy or Bob or even mention BSDs one time.
And not a single cuss word.
I'm not sure you and Slashdot are a good fit.
How about ...
It is more complicated than that thanks to the retarded monkeys at M$ that they call developers. Inferior to OpenGL, DirectX requires WDDM (an evil scheme to implement DRM to satisfy Hollywood, destroy the western economy, and is also shown to cause cancer in rats in some studies) which is aero and 3D composition GPU support starting with DX 10. FUCKING WDDM 1.2 is not compatible with any other kernel except SCO Xenix aka Openserver that Balmer stole and renamed Vista .... A rewrite would be needed that would make WIndows 7 not Windows 7 anymore and break video and CAD software and piss off the corporate users which was done on purpose to make M$ more money and to satisfy Sinsosky's Saddist fetishes.
DirectX 11.1 uses this in an abstraction layer brilliantly thought through by Balmer throwing a chair at a Window at a Windows and seeing the hole giving a visual metaphor of how much the aero glass needed the abstraction by the ratio of the hole size.
This is why IE 9 is not available for XP as MS thought Windows XP too good to make a decent OS. It has nothing to do with MicroShaft forcing users to upgrade. Its smooth graphics and font rendering require all that to make it smoother than FF or Chrome which rely on DirectX 9. IE 6 still has the best so far as Sinsosky's just orgasmed thinking of the webmasters who have to support it!! IE 10 as a result is Win 8 only at the moment until it is rewritten for the older WDDM 1.1 and DIrectX11 which will destroy the whole internet and require each SSL certificate user to purchase a SQL License ala Oracle RDMS style with an oath to sell their children into slavery. ... then the talent agent sat there for the longest time. He said hmm that is an interesting product what do you all call it?
Balmer: THE ARISTROCRATS!!!
Ok how was this? Can I get my slashdot card back now?
ONly ATI 5600 series or high card from 2010 are required! THat is a bumb considering some ATI HD 4870 SLI users who blew big $$$ for their gaming rigs just 2 years ago are shit out of luck with Windows 8.
Now I know why as only very recent cards support 11.1 shaders.
It is more complicated than that. DirectX requires WDDM which is aero and 3D composition GPU support starting with DX 10. WDDM 1.2 is not compatible with any other kernel. A rewrite would be needed that would make WIndows 7 not Windows 7 anymore and break video and CAD software and piss off the corporate users.
DirectX 11.1 uses this in an abstraction layer.
This is why IE 9 is not available for XP. It has nothing to do with MS forcing users to upgrade. Its smooth graphics and font rendering require all that to make it smoother than FF or Chrome which rely on DirectX 9. IE 10 as a result is Win 8 only at the moment until it is rewritten for the older WDDM 1.1 and DIrectX11.
Shit games today still require DirectX 9. Why? MS didn't want to port DirectX11.
IN actuality there are hardcore technical reasons like WDDM (the composer) being only available in WIndows Vista or higher. MS did port DirectX11 to Vista eventually as game studies still use the decade old DirectX 9. ... just sad considering games need to be cutting edge. WDDM 1.2 is not available for WIndows 7 but WDDM 1.1 is. YOu could theoretically port Direct X11.1 to Windows 7. It just requires more work if MS is serious about developers using it? Otherwise they might just finally upgrade to DIrectX11 and stay there.
So Microsoft but software requires OS upgrades before people switch. People switch only when software requires. It is a catch-22 and of course software makers want to keep the Windows 7 loyalist crowd who will be even more angry and resistant to change in a decade than the XP crowd. God forbid.
WDDM 1.2 has something called a composer that schedules between CPU and GPU tasks with directX 11.1 on top. It is a major performance improvement and great for power saving features.
Unfortunately, it can't be backported to Windows 7/XP as they would no longer be Windows 7 and XP anymore as it is a kernel rewrite. IT would break corporate software which is why they love using obsolete platforms for decades as it never changes.
Well no wonder IE 10 is not available on Windows 7. All that hardware acceleration has to be redone and fine tuned for a WDDM without a composer.
The new movies are not cannon. Different future altogether
First we got the abortions that were episodes 1,2 and 3 then they decided to make the worst Indiana Jones and now 3 more garbage movies.
Why can't they find a new series to make?
Just give me back the Sar Wars that I used to know
The Star Wars we used to know