I found an interesting article on where developers and manufactures are having problems with the rushed Vista compatibility and the 2GB wall problem. And that MS is going to ditch the buggy Vista and just release a new Windows called Vienna in 2009.
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3779
Clips of article:
The honest truth is that sometimes, programs just don't work for any apparent reason. When I made the jump to XP x64 from Vista on my desktop, I actually could not burn the ISO for the x64 trial. None of my software would work under Vista, and when I tried to find new software, I wound up with a lot of coasters. What the hell? This isn't a complex task, this is burning a CD image!
Unfortunately, compatibility issues prevalent in Vista get compounded when one makes the jump to the 64-bit version as more applications get broken. Again, this wouldn't be a huge deal, except that we've hit the 2GB wall and the jump to 4GB really does merit a simultaneous jump to a 64-bit operating system, unless you want hordes of consumers screaming "I paid for 4GB of RAM and my system only shows 3.5GB!" They aren't interested in the esoterica of 32-bit addressing, they just want the computer to say "4GB."
DirectX 10, however early, hasn't lived up to any of its promises, and in fact has been a titanic disappointment. More than that, the features that are supposed to be unique to DirectX 10 can also be exposed in OpenGL. Given how few people readily jumped on the Vista bandwagon, it's safe to suggest there might be a slight paradigm shift to favoring OpenGL, especially now that DirectX has had its components largely broken up (more on this in my next section). It bears mentioning that id Software chose to debut its next generation technology at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference this year, and went so far as to point out that it was being developed on Macs. Likewise, Electronic Arts announced the releases of four new, high profile titles on the Mac platform.
Vienna, Microsoft's next Windows, is due in 2009, and amusingly was announced not long after negative public sentiment toward Vista was beginning. Let's hope they get it right this time and actually give us features we need.
So what do you gamers think of this mess and that MS is ditching Vista in a couple of years?:|
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