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Windows Vista will layer OpenGL over D3D
toadlife:
back on topic.
If Microsoft *did* make it impossible to impliment OpenGL properly on Vista, then they would be looking at another AT lawsuit.
openGL is used on linux/BSD/OSx/PS2/Gamecube - pretty much everything except for X-Box and Windows. Locking out OpenGL from Vista would almost force game writers to use DirectX for Windows games, which would encourage porting to the X-Box and discourage porting to anything else.
worker201:
If you continue to use Windows, you continue to be at their mercy. You won't see me complaining, because OpenGL works just fine on all my computers. Anybody brave enough to use DirectX deserves to be shafted like this.
Jenda:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---If you continue to use Windows, you continue to be at their mercy. You won't see me complaining, because OpenGL works just fine on all my computers. Anybody brave enough to use DirectX deserves to be shafted like this.
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Yup... The only thing I'm afraid of is the potential influence on the outside world. I hope Microsoft loses the power to shift standards before it makes darkness the standard (remember "how many MS employees does it take to screw in a lightbulb?").
Lee:
--- Quote from: Jenda ---... (remember "how many MS employees does it take to screw in a lightbulb?").
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Remind me please
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---back on topic.
If Microsoft *did* make it impossible to impliment OpenGL properly on Vista, then they would be looking at another AT lawsuit.
openGL is used on linux/BSD/OSx/PS2/Gamecube - pretty much everything except for X-Box and Windows. Locking out OpenGL from Vista would almost force game writers to use DirectX for Windows games, which would encourage porting to the X-Box and discourage porting to anything else.
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Didn't they plan to remove Java from Windows and force their ActiveX shit down everyone's throats but they were threatened with legal action.
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