Tag: directx_10

Top Reasons to Stick with Vista

September 02, 2007 by Jason

Most people have considered at least once or twice the reasons to keep using Vista after installing the free Betas released by Microsoft before the official launch or after buying their own copy of the OS and installing it on their newly upgraded and Vista compatible PC.

If you’re in the first category you might find most of the arguments I’m going to list here in favor of making use of Vista instead of other OSs mostly because you haven’t gone radical about it and went to the store to buy yourself new Vista ready hardware. The cause of this is not the object of my article therefore I’m not going to write about it (although I suppose the money basis would be a definite turn off it has also been my case).

If you’re one of those that used Vista since the early released Betas and are still using it with the appropriate hardware then this article might give some reasons you haven’t been aware of to stick to it and not give it up for anything else, be it Microsoft material or open source. Read More»

Intriguing theory on DirectX 10 and its absence from Windows XP

July 18, 2007 by Jason

The parties involved would never admit whether this Inquirer story is true, but it’s entertaining enough that we just had to link to it. Grain of salt and all that (the article lists no sources, for example) but the theory as reported says that Microsoft started off with sound technical reasons for making DirectX 10 exclusive to Windows Vista. Due to alleged driver troubles from Nvidia, Microsoft is supposed to have loosened the requirements, and now it’s supposedly very possible to port DirectX 10 back to Windows XP. Read More»