Developers haven't even started to tap DX10 or 10.1, I don't think any new DX is needed for at least five years. Just look at early DX9 games compared to how they look now (Crysis included)

As long as they keep the cool touch screen technology and stuff that the OS is supposed to bring then I will be happy. You know what really stinks though??? All the naysayers on XP that will make the jump to Windows 7 and it will be a lot slower then XP. Each OS usually decreases in speed so they will have the Vista slowdown and then the slowdown of the new OS. I don't get why people care if an OS drops you by 1-20 FPS. Unless it is Crisis. Especially with the touch screen technology probably taxing the GPU in some way... this will be one slow OS probably... that is... unless Microsoft changes its business model to having new OS's having a smaller footprint and more speed as one of the features.

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if the above post is against the rules, please remove it. No fanboyism intended. I was just stating the truth about it. It is hard to understand why an article like this was written. :)

Vista has been out a year and a month. No need for another one. I took vista off and went back to xp till all the problems are fixed.

First people cry because DX10 requires more power, so they bash DX10 and stick with DX9, now people are complaining because Microsoft might not include DX11?

It just looks like everyone wants to bash Microsoft for everything.

When you need to release software in a time frame cuts happen constantly. Software is a really picky thing.

MS just re-making vista, apologizing to everyone who purchased it, and fix it for free(like the RROD). It's not like MS doesn't have experience in refunds. There's no need for windows 7, they need to fix vista. Make sure DX11 is compatible with vista. I for one would be on the vista bandwagon if it gave more. Its effed up of MS to essentially abandon all the vista users so soon. Vista needs:

- Better performance
- Better performance
- Less memory usage
- DX11 compatability
- Better performance

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau