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Old August 28th, 2008   #38 (permalink)
Coolsvilleman
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Vista was Microsoft shooting itself in the foot. As for DX10, the only reason there's no XP version is because M$ WON'T implement it. Not to mention that Redmond crippled it to satisfy Hollywood.
I think the problem with DX10 is that it would cause them to rewrite alot of the gdi system XP uses which would break compatibility for people running XP on ancient video cards like the TNT2 or something. Not to mention they want people to use vista.
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