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Thursday, January 11, 2007

CES 2007: John Carmack And Todd Hollenshead Speak
The gaming "gods" have some interesting stuff to say about the gaming landscape. Carmack not warming up to Vista....

Carmack: It’s a tough thing for Microsoft, where, essentially, Windows XP was a just fine operating system. Before that, there were horrible problems with Windows. But once they got there, it did everything an operating system is supposed to do. Nothing is going to help a new game by going to a new operating system. There were some clear wins going from Windows 95 to Windows XP for games, but there really aren’t any for Vista. They’re artificially doing that by tying DX10 so close it, which is really nothing about the OS. It’s a hardware-interface spec. It’s an artificial thing that they’re doing there. They’re really grasping at straws for reasons to upgrade the operating system. I suspect I could run XP for a great many more years without having a problem with it.


Read all about it here, courtesy of gameinformer.com


-Eric

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