The Windows 8 and other failed Microsoft products thread - Windows 8 "relaunches" Feb

I've yet to talk to anyone in the development world (multiple game publishers and studios, software engineering firms, etc) that have supported Windows 8 at all. Everyone is saying that Windows 7 will be the next Windows XP that everyone holds on to for years.

Spread the word to all your less techy friends that Windows 8 is going to be shit, and that they shouldn't be fooled by the sales people at Best Buy.

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

And I'm pretty damn sure their shit is still running on DX9 (you can't just change your library references to 11 and compile, they're not the same). DX11 introduces a lot of performance-positive features, on top of GFX features.

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It pretty much is DX9 running as a subset of DX11.1. I've lost track of the designations after we moved into DX11, but is it called DX9.0el? When I was looking over the most recent whitesheets for Source I was kinda shocked that they used HLSL up to SM3.0 as a selling point, but then again that's kinda something important that you'd need to know when choosing an engine.

Saw this, nothing really new, but for anyone who hasn't used it, it just shows how fucked regular customers will be when they try W8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMuJ...eature=related

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Originally Posted by Patrickssj6

Uhm afaik L4D2 runs faster on Linux than on Windows.

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Runs faster but doesn't look as good from what I've seen. They probably still have lots of room to tweak what they've done though.

Win8 is officially out today. Oh, and it still blows. Just in case any of you wondered.

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

Oh, and it still blows.

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:downs:

GIVE US THE TAGS STARTBAR!

FUCK Metro. Or rather, FUCK the thing formerly known as Metro.

I don't know why everybody is focusing so much on the interface itself when it's the ideas and mechanics behind the interface that are the big deal.

Oh wait, i c wut u did thar Microsoft.