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Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Once upon a midnight dreary, while Roy Schestowitz pondered weak and weary
> over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...:
>
>> __/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Friday 25 August 2006 16:06 \__
>>
>>> "Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:mth2s3-nm4.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>> There will be no
>>>> advantage to having a PC at all, indeed, you might as well just buy a
>>>> PS3 if you want to play high-definition movies. At least you'll be able
>>>> to play games as well.
>>>
>>> My interpretation of this is that Mark is implying that the PC won't
>>> be
>>> able to play games, which is of course completely ridiculous.
>>
>>
>> Microsoft doesn't yet play games on Vista
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The firm has its Vista logo all over its boothm, but all the machines
>> | that we investigated were running Windows XP.
>> |
>> | Obviously, it is still not the right time to switch to Vista as things
>> | might be not stable for current games. We hope that they can meet the
>> | early 2007 schedules.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33924
>>
>>
>>> One of the
>>> big marketting efforts from Microsoft is that Vista and the XBox360 will
>>> both provide the same DirectX 10 API libraries thus making it easier to
>>> develop "cross-platform" games.
>>
>>
>> No. DirectX is proprietary technology. It is Microsoft's tool for killing
>> OpenGL, which encourages openness and thereby interoperability.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Roy
>>
>
> By "cross platform" they mean "xbox 360 or Vista"
That'd be the one - the "only Microsoft platforms" would be another way
of putting it, or perhaps "no other platforms than, err, Microsoft
ones". However, none of the older games are going to work on Vista anyway,
as Microsoft are deliberately breaking OpenGL, anyway.
How many major OpenGL games have Microsoft customers invested their
money in which just won't function on Vista? All of them? £1000s of
them?
My advice? Steer well clear of proprietary platforms and their
apologists (like Mr Wong).
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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