Windows Vista: Aero Glass and Java Don't Mix
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| Sun Microsystems would do well to give a ring to one of the interop
| contacts at Microsoft that came out of the firms' historic make-nice
| agreement back in 2004, and figure out how to make Java apps
| first-class Vista citizens.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,2022483,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Java performance is said to be poor in Windows, which makes one wonder if
it's intended to encourage the use of .Net. Likewise, OpenGL performance
will be significantly degraded in Vista, which may encourage programmers to
choose the proprietary DirectX, essentially ruling out cross-platform/ports.
See the following:
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| In the current implementation (as of 2005-09-22) of the OpenGL
| graphics library in Windows Vista - a soon to be released new version of
| the Microsoft Windows operating system, OpenGL is not a stand alone
| library. Instead it functions as a wrapper around DirectX, and is
| frozen to the vanilla version of OpenGL 1.4.
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| This means that OpenGL applications in Windows Vista will, most
| likely, suffer from severe performance loss, that, when an OpenGL driver
| is loaded, the Windows operating system will have odd behaviours and
| that future versions of OpenGL will not affect the Windows Vista
| platform. This would result in less developers actively supporting
| OpenGL, and as a result, less applications written which are easy to
| port to another platform or easy to maintain.
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http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista
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