In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:30:18 +0000
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> Vista Not So Beautiful, say Casual Devs
The real question is not its beauty, but its profitability
for Microsoft. Of course, given the rest of these
reports, Microsoft may be shooting itself in the foot
again, apparently.
And beauty can be a great sales tool. :-) Witness the
number of Wintrools who wander in here drooling about the
fact that Linux is ugly, Linux's GUI is ugly, Linux's
command line is ugly -- which has the implication that
Windows is beautiful, Windows' GUI is beautiful, Windows'
command line is ugly but never seen, etc.
Oops...salt in the wound after Microsoft shoots self
in foot. No film at 11. :-)
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> | Microsoft has trumpeted the benefits
How oddly appropriate. :-) Vaporware through the brass section.
> | of its upcoming Windows
> | Vista release (combined with DirectX 10) to the gaming community,
> | but in the casual games space some developers remain wary of the
> | new Windows. Wild Tangent, PopCap and others chime in.
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> http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=14952
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> Related:
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> http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=12314
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> Vista DRM to slow down high-end graphics? [update 1]
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> | We've posted before on how the Vista brand will change the PC gaming
> | market. But how will the OS affect the gameplay experience itself?
> | An in-depth analysis of the operating system's draconian digital
> | rights management features suggests gamers might not be too happy
> | with some of the system's unintended performance effects.
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> http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/25/vista-drm-to-slows-down-high-end-graphics/
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> Vista gaming will be 10 to 15 per cent slower than XP
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> | So if you play Battlefield 2 or FEAR or any other popular game you are
> | likely to get lower frame rates with Vista. That is certainly not a
> | good buying argument but don?t think you and I have much choice as it
> | looks like a take it or leave it deal. I like Vista as the 3D desktop
> | looks sexy but that is probably its key feature.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34915
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> Microsoft doesn't yet play games on Vista
No, just WITH Vista. :-)
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> | 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.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33924
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