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Is it really worth trusting Microsoft this time around?

DasReviews writes: "We’ve heard it before, right? A new OS that will push the PC gaming to new, mind-blowing heights that can’t be achieved otherwise. This was the slogan of Windows Vista after all, as the new DirectX 10 API was not even compatible with Microsoft’s previous OS, Windows XP. But hold on a second, what is going on now? Vista and DX10 is outdated and the real revolution will start with Windows 8? Oh come on Microsoft. Seriously now, come on."

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Emilio_Estevez5456d ago

Love the slogan - The new beginning - LOL, the new beginning that will be barely different from the previos 2 versions.

Pandamobile5456d ago

It's already shaping up to be a pretty major edition, what with the focus on low-end system-on-a-chip architectures.

Should be cool to see.

Emilio_Estevez5456d ago

Oh yeah...Def be cool to see, but we are on windows 8(more like 10-12) and they just keep making new ones so people have to buy them, not to improve from year to year.

Pandamobile5456d ago

Well, they are a business after all.

Drazz5456d ago

@DR
Sounds like Activision and CoD....

BattleAxe5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

Well if they can make it so that 99% of all games in the last 10 years are compatible with Windows 8, I'll be a happy camper.........no really I mean it, I'll be camping every corner in MW3.

Seriously though, I hate having to worry whether or not some older games will work in Windows 7 64 Bit.

Substance1015456d ago

@battleaxe

Windows already has the best backward compatibiliy of any platform.

I can currently play games like:

Conquest of the new world 1996 game (runs via dosbox)
warcraft 3 2003 game

Hell even old console and arcade games from 80's 90's 2000's are supported.

What other platform can even dream of getting you that sort of BC?

somerandomdude5456d ago

I'd like to know more about windows 8. So far I've only seen a small quote stating that ms will focus on games with the next os. I have no idea if windows 8 is going to be good or not.

BubbleSniper5456d ago

if this is true, then I will be less likely to own more than 1 console during the next gen. (I own all competitors of this "current" gen)

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zeal0us5456d ago

I will pass or pirate a copy b/c theres no way in hell im buying another version of windows.

windows7 have yet gotten to sp2 and they already talking about windows8 comeon M$.

What Windows8 should really be is a a more compatible tablet/netbook version windows7 and that's it.

Aussiegamer5456d ago

@dr I think you should go back and read the article again or for the first time.

It is a look at gaming on the pc and if w8 is going to push it to the limits.

It is actually a good article. The heading is a little flame bait.

Kon5456d ago

In the end is all about the $$$

Aussiegamer5456d ago

Really and here I was people work for the fun of it.

/sarcasm

coryok5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

youre right, in general people dont work for fun, but in this case no ones working. theyre just releasing the number 8 and making you pay for it.

edit: nevermind i was wrong, someone had to come up with the idea of 8 for this to work, 8's dont just fly in through the window, 8's are good damn ideas

karl5456d ago

dude.. they need to give us their clients a fucking break....

MS is so fucking greedy... if they only would be a bit clever and realize we are not all rich maybe people would be more loyal ...

oh wait.. we have no choice .. almost all computers on earth have windows..

well lets just keep taking this shit then..

or not keep buying this new OS every time..

many things could be done by simple updates.. but they just put it all together in a bag and call it W8

admiralvic5456d ago

Oh yes that optional upgrade from X to 8 is totally not a choice... and its not like any new computer (or near the launch) will force you to buy it.

thehitman5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

Tbh thats a dumb fine. If people dont like the fact MS are packaging their own software for FREE then either dont buy MS products which your not force to buy or just dl new software when you get your windows machine. Laws like this should be abolished and are taking advantage of easy to target companies like MS.

Godmars2905456d ago

Companies that create and enforce monopolies?

Netscape was once the most used web browser until MS bought and privatized several public browser tools crippling them and putting them out of the market. And they're poised to do the same to Linux should it ever get more support.

thehitman5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

Netscape was crap and there were and still are tons of other browsers much better than IE. Its one thing to hate MS because they are good at being a business but its another to take cheap shots at them for being good. Yes MS likes to buy out competition but so do hundreds of other companies.

If it was your company and you developed something and then some guys decides to sue you and wins because you wont let him advertise his product right out the box you would be angry. Just look at what Google has done they built a company to rival MS and developed their own browser and now O/S without lawsuits and taking cheap shots to get ahead and MS cant buy out google.

Rhythmattic5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

Godmars290.. True , True..

Just read how MS crippled Lotus 1-2-3, and their ninja moves with IBM and OS2...

Oh well , guess business is business..

But watch out MS,.... this decade, the model has changed...

Red_Phoenix5456d ago

I'm loving 7! As long as they don't totally make it completely different and use some of the features 7 has, then I believe that 8 will be great as well.

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PUBG Lite PC System Requirements

Are you looking for PUBG Lite PC System Requirements, If YES, then you have reached right page. You can checkout PUBG Lite PC minimum and recommended system requirements below. PUBG Lite PC is a new free version of the PUBG PC game with scaled-down graphics designed to play on computers and laptops equipped with lower-end …

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khiva42648d ago

PUBG is a good game I liked Pubg.Pubg is better then a fortnite game.

GamerzElite2648d ago (Edited 2648d ago )

Lol, I downloaded PUBG Lite from this site and found Free Fire game inside with Blue Stack.

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey To Change Controversial DLC

After apologizing for forcing your character into a heterosexual relationship, Ubisoft is planning to issue a patch that will correct the error.

A controversial bit of Assassin's Creed Odyssey downloadable content will be changed in a future patch following a backlash from fans. Spoilers follow for the Shadow Heritage episode of Odyssey's DLC.

At the end of the Shadow Heritage episode, your character has a child from a heterosexual relationship. Those who had spent hours playing their Kassandra or Alexios as LGBTQ--or simply not interested in relationships at all--felt forced into a plot development

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Chaosdreams2653d ago

This is good to hear. *Thumbs up

Nobody loses, everyone wins.

Hungryalpaca2652d ago

Except now canonically it doesn’t make sense. This was supposed to be part of a bloodline.

If the character is gay...the bloodline ends...unless they still have children. So they’d need to tie that up now.

lilzay333112652d ago

why would it be a bloodline thing, they killed bloodlines in origins with the invention of the portable animus. there's literally no need for a child or even a relationship when the connection is to the person not their relative.

NewMonday2652d ago

so we can't say you can't have natural children with the same sex?

babadivad2651d ago

This may come as a shocker to you but, gay people have children all the time. . .

mikeslemonade2651d ago

I’m for gays but here’s another example of entitled people complaining about small things. Ubisoft should stand up against this and change nothing.

fathertime44642651d ago

@babadivad
Yeah gays have kids all the time through adoption or artificial encemination. One of two of these things didn't exist back then. Now add in the fact that you need the historical bloodlines you kind of just killed off the past games with this one.

And an FYI to all you politically correct morons, ITS A GAME SET IN ANCIENT GREECE , THERE WASN'T SAME SEX COUPLES. YES THERE WAS ALWAYS HOMOSEXUALS, BUT THEY MARRIED AND PROCREATED WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX!

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JokerBoy4222652d ago

Explain how this supports the science of the Animus now. They pandered to the LGBTXYZ cuz those cancers of society never shut the hell up about anything.

Chaosdreams2652d ago

It’s not pandering. If the devs didn’t see a proper solution then they’d leave it be, but since they’ve chosen to update the content that leaves an impression they found a solution, narratively speaking.

Considering the content with the update hasn’t been addressed - all I see are cancers flipping out.

NewMonday2652d ago

@Chaosdreams
the impression it leaves is that they compromised their artistic integrity under mob pressure.

Batnut002652d ago

Well they already covered this in Origins where you don't need bloodlines anymore to go back in time for Assassins.

Chaosdreams2651d ago

@NewMonday

In that context I understand the frustration/worry.

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xRacer74x2653d ago

Now I expect this from both sides from now on. I do not want any game to force non hetro relationships. If one side can be offended then its certainly okay for the other side to offended.

Batnut002652d ago

Well if the game prides itself in offering player choice to the point of advertising as such and than suddenly forces your character who you've decided to play as hetero to suddenly be forced into a same-sex relationship than absolutely

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xRacer74x2651d ago

I usually do not care. But Im growing tired of the LBGC complaining at every turn. The last 2 or 3 years the USA is has become inundated with this crap. Love who you want to love, I just have no desire to hear about it and I will do the same.

fathertime44642649d ago

Well by pandering to the pansies they've kinda killed the entire game series. It's what's called a paradox. Now that they've made it so you don't have to procreate they've completely screwed the entirety of all previous assassin's games.
I'm aware that they did away with the whole bloodlines thing in origins, but you needed them in previous games and now you have a virtual butterfly effect in that the non birth of one person eliminates the birth of many people and can also change the course of human history completely. Thank you lgbqt community for ruining everything you touch and thank you Ubisoft for being so politically correct (idiot's)

Sashamaz2651d ago

Yeah, I feel like most games now force you to do things one way, I guess it's all about who shouts the loudest.

WitcheRivia2652d ago

Ugh, nothing worse than a bunch of heterophobes.

tar_tar072652d ago

Crazy times we live in man.

Profchaos2652d ago

So they abandoned the whole idea of needing a bloodline to utilise the animus?

lilzay333112652d ago

yes they did away with that in origins.

Profchaos2652d ago

I always thought the modern day segments were pointless after AC3 i still have no idea why they bothered with black flag it felt forced

Sophisticated_Chap2652d ago

@ Profchaos

Ubisoft plans on re-telling the story, allowing for Artificial Insemination, to fill in the plot holes.

Cobra9512652d ago (Edited 2652d ago )

It was, until they made it an issue.

beulahland2651d ago

Well, if they hadn't transformed Assassin's Creed in a full RPG game, this would not be an issue. But...

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Microsoft Disables Safedisc DRM On Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, & Windows 8/8.1

DSOGaming writes: "Last month, we informed you about a Windows 10 update that disabled Safedisc DRM on Microsoft’s latest operating system. Well, it appears that Microsoft has applied this security update on all its other operating systems as well. This basically means that the Safedisc DRM is disabled on Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, thus rendering a number of games unplayable."

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MCTJim3873d ago

Both pieces of DRM are no longer maintained, meaning that any vulnerabilities could be easily exploited given the way they hook into the operating system. SafeDisc, for example, tries to load the SECDRV.SYS driver with system-level permissions, and it was found to be insecure back in the day.

So good riddance to bad rubbish. There is a work around that enable you to use your old software..it takes just a few seconds to implement.

DarkBlood3873d ago

Well hopfully my steam games will still work like usual

contradictory3873d ago

It shouldn't affect anything from Steam.
And they issued a work-around on the article anyways