And in addition to dt's reply on Carltos Cool's post:
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Originally posted by Carltos Cool
DX 10 = Direct X 10, it will be needed in the future for playing new games. This is not available for XP.
errrmm... it is not available _yet_...
When they become available, put a DirectX 10 compatible graphics card in your PC and download the DirectX 10 driver and you're done
ps: its "DirectX", not "Direct X"
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Originally posted by Carltos Cool
Question, if it wasn't built from new how come it took them 6 years to make this OS?
Because:
1) Basing it on something does not mean you can simply copy/paste code.
2) Development doesn't just mean writing code. It also means doing research, study, making decisions, knowing what you're going to do in the first place, planning stuff, etc
3) every small aspect of the software needs to be tested in absolute detail in extremely many scenarios and with an extreme lot of 3rd party stuff.
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To all the bashers: I suggest to read some developpers blogs once in a while to get an idea of what it takes to make a piece of big software. A lot of people have an extremely wrong idea about this and think everything comes by itself.
And it is certainly not only some department of Microsoft (again something which many people get totally wrong; Microsoft consists of a _lot_ of different independent departements) which doesn't get the deadline.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with Vista! It is a new OS... Remember all the (stupid crap) talk when XP came out? When XP SP2 came out? Deja-vu all the way I'd say....
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