There you have it. Windows 7 may not save us after all. Its not that Vista is bad but it could be so much better. Microsoft was hoping that was Vista SP1 would do only it didnt. The industry was hoping that Windows 7 would be the anti-Vista as it has been called by some but it doesnt look like thats going to happen either.
Allegedly the first feature to get cut from Windows 7 is DirectX 11. While DirectX 11 may be optional at some point, it wont be shipping with the operating system. It turns out that manufactures which sell desktops and laptops with the awful awful horrible useless integrated graphics want no part of that particular requirement.
The Inquirer reports that half of PCs are sold with integrated graphics and one company sells nothing but which whined to Microsoft about it. If DirectX 11 was a requirement for Windows 7, one quarter of PCs made wouldnt be able to run it. Tough.