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Windows 7 already getting features cuts and becomes Vista "plus" | |
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| Time: 15:15 EST/20:15 GMT | News Source: Blorge | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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There you have it. Windows 7 may not save us after all. It’s not that Vista is bad but it could be so much better. Microsoft was hoping that was Vista SP1 would do only it didn’t. The industry was hoping that Windows 7 would be the “anti-Vista” as it has been called by some but it doesn’t look like that’s 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 won’t 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 wouldn’t be able to run it. Tough. | ||
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| #1 By 62611 (67.166.83.247) at 2/10/2008 6:33:24 PM |
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I don't know that DX11 was ever promised for Windows 7. In fact I haven't heard of any promised features. Just rumors.
Keep in mind that the original article about this began on the inquirer. And we all know how unbiased that site is. |
| #2 By 81201 (82.52.19.43) at 2/11/2008 3:10:58 AM |
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Microsoft has NOT announced the next OS, all features are unknown, so no feature is cutted because we don't know what are the features... :-)
Please stop speaking about Win7 and have fun with Vista that remains our OS for long years. Vista SP2 will come with other exciting new features... By the way, If DirectX 11 will be included in the next OS, all future newer PCs would be able to run it at that late date (2011 o later). This post was edited by suy on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 03:24. |
| #3 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 2/11/2008 6:52:23 AM |
| Latch chum. |
| #4 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at 2/11/2008 8:01:40 AM |
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Same routine as always. None of this is suprising.
I really see Win7 as being a super-servicepack costing heavens knows how much instead of a 'new' OS. In 2010 we'll be seeing Vista as we do XP right now. Finally solid, and useable to the point where Windows 7 is irrelevent for the most part. TL |
| #5 By 61 (12.108.60.37) at 2/11/2008 1:23:09 PM |
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TL,
This is exactly what 7 should be. It should just be a refinement of Vista... and shouldn't be called 7. |
| #6 By 94647 (76.8.64.170) at 2/11/2008 2:03:52 PM |
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Notice that neither DX10 nor DX9 are a requirement for Vista.
You only need DX9, if you want Aero. And again, DX10 is a feature, not a requirement. |
| #7 By 17996 (131.107.0.105) at 2/11/2008 3:45:55 PM |
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#5 -- Agreed. And this is exactly why Win7 is version 6.1.
Unfortunately, Steve "i don't like codenames" Sinofsky made the mistake of renaming Vienna (a version-agnostic codename) to "Windows 7", which implies the scope of a major version. |
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