No need to move anywhere yet. Windows 7 is a great classic OS and it still will get support and patches for years to come. But yes, I have also been considering OSX as an possible future platform for myself. However at that moment Windows 9 is probably out already and it might shuffle things again, for the good or bad, who knows.
Visual Studio and other products have free versions now, so TechNet subscription is mostly outdated service. Visual Studio Express is the same great product that the full version of Visual Studio is, but is great for beginners. Visual Studio as a whole is a great product too. And, MSDN subscription is there too.
You press start and type "cmd". Typing on the start screen initiates a search. Alternatively press win+s to open the search panel, and type "cmd". Alternatively right click on the start menu and click run, then type cmd.
No, you type "powershell". The old Command Prompt is deprecated.
The engine is fully capable of using whatever theme the user wants, but for unknown reasons this is restricted to the one included theme digitally signed by Microsoft. There is no good reason for that.
There is a very good reason for that. They want to retain a universal look for Windows. Very important for branding.
The Start menu is still much easier to use. Try using Windows 8 for a while and then go back to Windows 7. It's like a breath of fresh air. Everything is again quickly found from where you expect.
Microsoft doesn't give a flying fuck what is said about them on Slashdot.
Heh. Even Herb Sutter (from the Visual Studio team) has mentioned Slashdot in his talks at Channel 9. I'm sure microsofties occasionally bump on the comments on Slashdot too. This is a quite well-known technology website. I agree that the impact is probably still quite small, but it's not a complete "flying fuck".
No one is interested in the Modern UI apps and the Start screen is harder to use than the Start menu. It's a jumbled mess of icons which steals your whole screen and you have to move your mouse much more than before. Actually, I have noticed that many resort to just typing the application name they want to use into the search bar as the GUI is so clunky to use.
The minimal performance improvements, improved file transfer dialog, improved task manager, ISO mounting and DirectX 11.2, are not big enough features to justify an upgrade. All those features are good enough in Windows 7 already. Those improvements could have been released as a free Platform Update for Windows 7.
Reminds me of a story which my friend told back in the day. He was on a golf court with another friend. Some player couldn't see where his shot went. Then my friend's friend says "I can calculate where the ball went."
While Linux is technically better in some areas, the commercial push and the huge ecosystem of HW and SW vendors generally make Windows work much better. The command line is simply not needed that much in Windows because the various graphical tools for configuring things are more advanced. What comes to PowerShell, you really have to adapt from the UNIX world and find out the PS way of doing things. Especially the object oriented data manipulation has a different feeling to it. They have done some nice things to modernize the CLI and some parts of PowerShell actually are more highly developed than Bash. However I completely agree that a package management system would greatly improve Windows.
I think people has misconception of how works Direct3D 11. Nowadays, it just Direct3D 11 with 'feature level' : 9.1 (targeting Direct3D 9), 9.2, etc to 11.1 and 11.2). Thinks a bit like OpenGL 4.1, 4.2 etc..., just some 'extensions'
The thing is that you can write Direct3D 11 apps running on a Direct3D 9.0 hardware (minus the new features like geometry shader). A bit achievement from Direct3D 10 where only Direct3D 10 only worked for Geforce 8 or better (and AMD Radeon HD). Now it could works with very old hardware and still working on latest hardware/
How is this technically possible? For example, how can programmable shaders work on the older fixed function hardware?
It's mostly just part of Microsoft's strategy to increase Windows 8's value over previous versions of Windows. I'm quite sure that there wouldn't be too big technical obstacles to bring DirectX 11.2 (and Internet Explorer 11) to Windows 7.
I'm sure there are a lot of modern games which you would enjoy alongside Populous and Lemmings! Just browse the catalogues of GOG and Steam thoroughly.
That being said, and as a fan of the original Total Annihilation, Planetary Annihilation is high on my wishlist too.
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Sure, but it's not maintained.
The full versions is also available for testing.
No need to move anywhere yet. Windows 7 is a great classic OS and it still will get support and patches for years to come. But yes, I have also been considering OSX as an possible future platform for myself. However at that moment Windows 9 is probably out already and it might shuffle things again, for the good or bad, who knows.
Visual Studio and other products have free versions now, so TechNet subscription is mostly outdated service. Visual Studio Express is the same great product that the full version of Visual Studio is, but is great for beginners. Visual Studio as a whole is a great product too. And, MSDN subscription is there too.
Visual Studio 2013 Preview just came out of the oven, too.
Nice one. :D
You press start and type "cmd". Typing on the start screen initiates a search. Alternatively press win+s to open the search panel, and type "cmd". Alternatively right click on the start menu and click run, then type cmd.
No, you type "powershell". The old Command Prompt is deprecated.
The engine is fully capable of using whatever theme the user wants, but for unknown reasons this is restricted to the one included theme digitally signed by Microsoft. There is no good reason for that.
There is a very good reason for that. They want to retain a universal look for Windows. Very important for branding.
The Start menu is still much easier to use. Try using Windows 8 for a while and then go back to Windows 7. It's like a breath of fresh air. Everything is again quickly found from where you expect.
Microsoft doesn't give a flying fuck what is said about them on Slashdot.
Heh. Even Herb Sutter (from the Visual Studio team) has mentioned Slashdot in his talks at Channel 9. I'm sure microsofties occasionally bump on the comments on Slashdot too. This is a quite well-known technology website. I agree that the impact is probably still quite small, but it's not a complete "flying fuck".
No one is interested in the Modern UI apps and the Start screen is harder to use than the Start menu. It's a jumbled mess of icons which steals your whole screen and you have to move your mouse much more than before. Actually, I have noticed that many resort to just typing the application name they want to use into the search bar as the GUI is so clunky to use.
The minimal performance improvements, improved file transfer dialog, improved task manager, ISO mounting and DirectX 11.2, are not big enough features to justify an upgrade. All those features are good enough in Windows 7 already. Those improvements could have been released as a free Platform Update for Windows 7.
Those kind of attacks are extremely rare these days.
ActiveX was actually smart in the way that it executed fast native code instead of slow interpreted Javascript.
What programming language did you use originally?
Windows 9? You think MS can go three full Windows releases without changing the naming scheme? That hasn't happened since Windows 1,2 and 3.
Hilarious!
Next up: Windows RedBird.
That is indeed correct. Thank you.
Cities in Motion 2 is probably one of the best tycoon games available. Highly recommended.
Reminds me of a story which my friend told back in the day. He was on a golf court with another friend. Some player couldn't see where his shot went. Then my friend's friend says "I can calculate where the ball went."
While Linux is technically better in some areas, the commercial push and the huge ecosystem of HW and SW vendors generally make Windows work much better. The command line is simply not needed that much in Windows because the various graphical tools for configuring things are more advanced. What comes to PowerShell, you really have to adapt from the UNIX world and find out the PS way of doing things. Especially the object oriented data manipulation has a different feeling to it. They have done some nice things to modernize the CLI and some parts of PowerShell actually are more highly developed than Bash. However I completely agree that a package management system would greatly improve Windows.
But the Start button is coming back.
I think people has misconception of how works Direct3D 11. Nowadays, it just Direct3D 11 with 'feature level' : 9.1 (targeting Direct3D 9), 9.2, etc to 11.1 and 11.2). Thinks a bit like OpenGL 4.1, 4.2 etc..., just some 'extensions'
The thing is that you can write Direct3D 11 apps running on a Direct3D 9.0 hardware (minus the new features like geometry shader). A bit achievement from Direct3D 10 where only Direct3D 10 only worked for Geforce 8 or better (and AMD Radeon HD). Now it could works with very old hardware and still working on latest hardware/
How is this technically possible? For example, how can programmable shaders work on the older fixed function hardware?
It's mostly just part of Microsoft's strategy to increase Windows 8's value over previous versions of Windows. I'm quite sure that there wouldn't be too big technical obstacles to bring DirectX 11.2 (and Internet Explorer 11) to Windows 7.
Nope.
Do you use the Modern UI apps?
I'm sure there are a lot of modern games which you would enjoy alongside Populous and Lemmings! Just browse the catalogues of GOG and Steam thoroughly.
That being said, and as a fan of the original Total Annihilation, Planetary Annihilation is high on my wishlist too.
How about Unfinished Swan?