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| > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
| > | On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:41:39 -0700, "titus12" wrote:
| > |
| > | > Will Microsoft make DX10 to work with XP? I read that DX10 will
only
| > work
| > | > with Vista.
| > |
| > |
| > | Right.
| > |
| > |
| > | > Like about 82% of computer users who prefer XP and are not
| > | > planning to upgrade to Vista,
| > |
| > |
| > | I have no idea what the percentage is, although I doubt very much if
| > | it's anywhere near that high. But whatever the percentage and whatever
| > | their plans, most of them will upgrade to Vista sooner or later
| > | because they will want support for the newer hardware and new software
| > | that will only be available in the newer operating system.
| > |
| > |
| > | > I want to be able to use the newer video
| > | > cards(PCI-Express 2.0) with XP.
| > |
| > |
| > | That's an example of what I explained above, and a reason why you will
| > | probably upgrade to Vista sooner or later.
| >
| > To me the entire design and policy about Windows Vista seems more like a
| > reason to move to Ubuntu Linux with Beryl.
| >
http://www.ubuntu.com/
| >
http://www.beryl-project.org/releases.php
| >
| > Vista works good enough on my hardware, but some how... I'm trying to
work
| > with it, but it's always taking my attention away from what I do. My
opinion
| > is that if Microsoft wants people to buy Vista, then Vista must help
this
| > people to do theit things easyer. And why did they put every setting on
a
| > different page, different location, spread all around? Could that be
user
| > friendly? Well, let's try typyng setting 1 in the search box... OK, now
| > setting 2... Horay, it found it! But can I search for 100 setings one
after
| > another? Ofcource I can, but I don't have a free week to loose. You'd
ask
| > why would I need to change 100 settings? Well, that because I didn't
like
| > how that settings were by default.
| >
| > You see, I'm a user, and I don't like it, because it's not the way I
want it
| > to be!
|
|
| That's fine. Use whatever you like.
|
|
| > Many people can afford to buy Vista, but they don't like it.
| >
| > At least that is my impression from the beta program. I used it for a
week
| > or two, then I re-formated the partition and said: "No, I can't work
with
| > that! It's killing my productivity."
|
|
| Again, I don't want to try to talk you into anything you don't want to
| use, but rejecting a product because you didn't like it when it was in
| beta seems to me to be foolish.
Good point!
I was so busy talking about the things I didn't like, that I
quite forgot about the improvements. Just to mention a few that I like...
Built-in support for DVD burning, including UDF. I remember there was
something about very fast searching based on indexing and SQL. Also improved
CPU scheduling for better multimedia and streaming performance... That's
pretty good for live video capturing. There's also the Desktop Window
Manager - every window is rendered on it's own surface, the Desktop
Composition will combine all that windows together, creating what you can
see on the screen. Of course this depends on DirectX 10 and a driver that
supports it
This allows all that fancy effects. It still needed some
optimisation, but I guess this was fixed in the final version. Oh and this
also allowed a window to be moved around without redrawing the other
windows... The operating systems just tells the video card to move that
window somewhere else. This frees a lot of CPU time. By the way Windowblinds
can add this nice feature to XP.
I'm preparing to try the Windows 2008 Server beta. I just love playing with
servers. After all, they seem to be much more manageable and usually do what
I want to
Thank You for the correction, Ken!
George Valkov
