__/ [ 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
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