Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

Martin Gifford — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:46:17 GMT

Ex customer,

Yeah, I'm amazed that people worry about security regarding viruses and internet banking, but are willing to put their files on the cloud. The US government is getting more power now that Obama has gone to the dark side by cementing Bush extremism into place for "security". Now we have bipartisan agreement on these issues. Obama is now killing US citizens abroad just on his personal say so. People have been conditioned by the media to trust the government because of over-hyped 9/11 fears. People have become so comfortable because the security regime hasn't reached them (yet), that they just blithely go with whatever computer companies want. Make no mistake, we are one nuclear explosion away from a totalitarian world. Everything is in place for that. It's such a tragedy because globalisation has set the world up for creating a utopia if only people had good will and were constructive instead of being obsessed with security on one side, and power on the other.

Regarding Windows 8, I actually love everything about it except the UI (I especially hate the Charms bar and the hotspot corners). I definitely want huge changes and improvements to the old UI. For example, I hated the pokey start button, and I think the metro Start screen has great potential as a replacement, but, for many, it isn't quite there yet. So I think MS has a moral obligation to give people the option of a Windows 95/98/XP/7 desktop experience since MS basically has a monopoly in many ways, and the new UI is nowhere near ready for the desktop. Ideally, I would like to keep the metro start screen but remove the hotspots and move the charms functions into a taskbar on the metro Start screen. That would be best of both worlds for the desktop IMO.

;-)

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

Ex customer — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:13:31 GMT

Why are 'The Cloud' so incredible fantastic to a lot of people ? I myself wouldn't trust any of the companies in USA that have cloud services. Why You may ask ? The thing is that since the end of 2011 have there been many new laws in USA that give american authorities the right to take any users account or files. It is not a better situation that most companies in USA even support these laws today. First they did protest about SOPA, as many might remember ? Today SOPA is dead, but reborn as CISPA. All giants, more than 800 companies, in USA support CISPA; Google, Apple, Microsoft and so on.... Why on Earth should i trust them when they first reject such a law as SOPA and then support it when it is reborn as CISPA that is worse than SOPA ? Now they even seem to support a law that takes CISPA even further, now named as IPAA. The Cloud is not to trust, especially not the services in USA. I rather have my files stored local in some external drive that can be turned off when i don't use the files. Why share my company secrets with the american authorities ? No way !

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

Starbuck 1504 — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:47:03 GMT

There are many comments here posted by people concerned about the productivity of Windows 8 desktops, but most are aimed to be constructive. Microsoft has made some fantastic changes addressing aesthetics, touch, cloud and overall product strategy. Big changes to significant stuff. We want this to be a success.

So it is quite sad to see so many negative comments but they are virtually all about one issue: the design integrating Metro into the desktop. I really hope management is listening to the loud feedback from previews before this thing gets adopted by the masses ... or not as the case may be.

I look forward to Windows 8 phones and tablets... they look great.

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

Sebastian Gonzalez — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:32:35 GMT

@Remllab Evets: Linux is not broken as desktop OS or anything like that, Windows is broken with all its spyware/malware.

3-4 games? haha, did you heard Gabe wanting to port all the 2500 games to Linux?

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

Sebastian Gonzalez — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:31:22 GMT

@Remllab Evets: I also run Linux on my servers and the fact that you don't know how to administer Linux doesn't mean it's broken, moron.

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

Remllab Evets — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:42:09 GMT

@Sebastian Gonzalez

Linux is broken as an user OS, I know because I run Linux on my servers.

Have fun playing 3-4 games on steam.

OSX had steam years ago, and that didn't kill Windows.

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

Sebastian Gonzalez — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:50:37 GMT

Steam and games are coming to Linux, bye M$, I'm done with Windows, I'm switching to Linux now.

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

Sebastian Gonzalez — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:15:37 GMT

Windows 8 sucks, I'm moving to Linux.

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

CapneoCrowley — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:47:23 GMT

I Does Do...Wants It.

re: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

XBLIG Developer — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:52:47 GMT

XNA! XNA! XNA! If WinRT doesn't support XNA then I won't be porting over my XBLIG games. (I have 12 games, three are top sellers. All are written in XNA and I refuse to rewrite thousands of lines of code in C++ D3D.)