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Re: Windows Vista SP1 Renders Some More Hardware Obsolete

____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 16 January 2008 12:02 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> 
>> And what's wrong with DirectX10?  Apart from someone lying through
>> their teeth regarding the picture display at one point, perhaps? :-)
> 
> And lying about DX10 on XP, as a Vista marketing ploy:
> 
>
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/07/11/dx10-is-do-able-on-windows-xp
> http://haleyshothouse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5159
>
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/download-directx-10-for-windows-xp-from-alky-project/
>
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Vista-039-s-DirectX-10-on-Windows-XP-58731.shtml
>
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2006/10/17/directx-90-l-works-on-vista-only
> 

Yup. Naked emperor. If you buy enough shills for ./ and Digg, people will start
to believe that DX10 actually makes a difference. Oh, and don't forget faking
some images to show bogus improvement...

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