"Back in 2003, Microsoft assembled a team of engineers to rethink the lowest levels of Windows, so that the OS could be more easily slimmed down and secured to run in servers and embedded applications. That project, called "MinWin," has now started to bear fruit."
Windows 7 official support ended recently and inXile Entertainment are now pushing Bard's Tale IV players to install Windows 10 apparently. Considering it was originally playable in Windows 7, players are not liking the minimum system requirements change.
Building on the success of porting WoW's DX12 version to Windows 7, Microsoft has published help for other DX12 devs, which includes a runtime that supports all the features of Windows 10 October Update... including DirectX Raytracing.
That's right, DirectX 12 has come to Windows 7
Seems strange to port it to Windows 7 at the same time they started to notify customers it has reached its end of life lol
Woah, that's great actually! I can finally throw my Win 10 in the trash and go back to an OS that doesn't f*** up my games performance at each update.
by focusing on their core business? Wow!
Stop wasting money on crap-shoots like Zune and 360, both of which, despite many billions in investments and lawsuits, have not even remotely succeeded in fulfilling their goals, and divert all those resources to Windows 8.
Windows 8 should be an entirely new operating utilizing concepts that render Windows 7, MacOS, various Linux varients, instantly obsolete. Microsoft knows what I'm talking about. They just need the guts to do it. If they don't do it, other companies will eventually do it for them and Microsoft (and my MSFT stocks) will be history.
The problem is that Microsoft is they lack confidence. No matter how much money they've made they've never been confident enough to make strong moves.
Come on Microsoft ... stop being a loser. It's time to get out and dance.