DirectX 12 promises both dramatically increased performance in games, thanks to reduced CPU overhead and better support for multithreading, and significantly reduced power consumption, a real boon for owners of gaming laptops. It will of course be built into Windows 10 and compatible with Windows 8 as well, but the news isn't so good for Windows 7 diehards.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
R.I.P Windows 7
it was fantastic OS
Not a surprise, Microsoft has always used DirectX as a way of getting gamers to upgrade to a new version of Windows.
Come on guys typical MS practice to get you to buy a new OS.
I just hope Dx12 is as good as advertised and that Windows 10 is as good as Win7
Heck just put some new paint on Win7 and call it 10 for all I care.
I'll be sticking with Win 7 either way, despite this news. I honestly can't see the majority switching to (9) 10 either, unless they make some drastic changes.
As it is right now, it just seems like Windows 8 with a new coat of paint. One thing they need to do, is that they need to get rid of the ugly, ugly tiles and make ''apps'' actually close when you want them to. Also how the file system is working for 7 is better.
every DX12 game will just about support mantle and every Mantle Supported game will have DX12 support , so for ATI/AMD windows 7 will live on ..