DirectX 10: why it's exclusive to Vista

[Anusha]

Full article: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/2/14/7060

When Microsoft officially announced that DirectX 10 (DX10) would only be available for Windows Vista, many gaming fans yearning to be on the bleeding edge were upset. In order to get the most from their video cards, users would have to upgrade their operating systems to Vista. Some have attributed Microsoft's decision to be purely based on marketing, but that's not entirely the case. What other factors were in play?

According to Microsoft DirectX guru Phil Taylor, development for DX10 wasn't complete until late in Windows XP's lifecycle, and during the time of its development, things became clear that DX10 simply would not fit into XP.

 

[fazaal24]

!thatz good newzz

 

[Anusha]

!thatz good newzz

Really? I thought people will be pissed of by this fact

 

[The_Ace]

maybe its time to use Open GL again...

 

[Anusha]

maybe its time to use Open GL again...

Oh no!!!!

 

[Novindu]

euhhh dat sucks!!!!!

 

[The_Ace]

Oh no!!!!

I remeber reading somewhere that Open GL is much better graphics system that DirectX is but MS is downplaying it to promote their own system (DX)

 

[Anusha]

euhhh dat sucks!!!!!

Hehe. Not really. If they tried to put DX10 to already quite stable XP, they might have screwed it up, because it required to change the driver model to WDDM.

 

[Anusha]

I remeber reading somewhere that Open GL is much better graphics system that DirectX is but MS is downplaying it to promote their own system (DX)

I don't know about that. One thing's for sure. nVidia's OpenGL driver is far superior to ATI's.