DX11.1 not coming to Win 7

XP lasted because it was such a solid OS and it was not easily replaced. Also old OS fits an old machine, many people do the very minimum on their machines, if it loads a web page thats all they want.
Apart from loading fast win 8 doesnt bring much you need to have, I never use metro so its not that negative either
 
silversurfer said:
XP lasted because it was such a solid OS and it was not easily replaced. Also old OS fits an old machine, many people do the very minimum on their machines, if it loads a web page thats all they want.
Apart from loading fast win 8 doesnt bring much you need to have, I never use metro so its not that negative either
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Also the fact that there was a six year gap between XP and Vista launch,which has you know is unprecedented,Microsoft are now back on a two to three year cycle for a new OS.
XP may have been solid but it had a lot of perforated holes where security was concerned.


I disagree about the Win8 remark however,Win8 brings a lot ie improved security , cross platform between desktop and tablet ,Microsoft Store,speed,USB 3.0 native support etc...I could go on.
I'll say I ditched XP way back in Vista days and have not looked back,I could not bring myself to use XP ever again.
 
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jakspyder said:
For the £25 MS are asking for windows... Is it really such a big deal... cmon guys... £25...

Spends thousands on a top end rig.

wont spend £25 on an OS.....
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Hehe or they don't mind buying a 200 quid plus video card for gaming or lots of games but OS for 25 quid ,nah too much for their deep pockets ;) they rather moan about no DX11.1 or whatever.
 
That will change when MS realizes how much of a balls up they have made with Win 8. They are practically giving 8 away. I believe the 7 followers of which there are many, will be demand enough for the code to be released 7 style.
 
Sorry, I wrote that badly. I meant to imply that MS balls up Win 8. I foresee Win 8 going the way of Vista, only quicker. When that happens MS will bring 11.1 out for Win 7.
 
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-gives-in-adds-some-directx-111-features-to-windows-7


Now it looks like Microsoft has had a change of heart, at least in part. In a post on the Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK blog today, the company reveal that it quietly released a way for Windows 7 to get some of the features of DirectX 11.1 as part of Tuesday's preview version of Internet Explorer 10.

The blog states that the update adds these particular DirectX 11.1 features to Windows 7, along with Windows Server 2008 R2:

ID3D11Device1, ID2D1Factory1, IDWriteFactory1, IDXGIFactory2, IWICImagingFactory2, ID3DUserDefinedAnnotation and related APIs are available
Improved Direct3D 11 device interoperability via ID3DDeviceContextState, including the improved interop with Direct2D/DirectWrite
D3D11_FEATURE_DATA_D3D9_OPTIONS feature detection
In addition to the new Windows 8 WIC features, this update also fixes decoding of 96bpp floating-point TIFF images.

The blog points out that these new features are limited to the WDDM 1.1 drivers on Windows 7. Also, quite a few DirectX 11.1 features will continue to be exclusive to Windows 8, including:

Feature Level 11.1 hardware
All D3D11_FEATURE_DATA_D3D11_OPTIONS features for Feature Level 10.x/11.0 devices
16bpp format support (DXGI_FORMAT_B5G6R5_UNORM, DXGI_FORMAT_B5G5R5A1_UNORM, DXGI_FORMAT_B4G4R4A4_UNORM)
Tile-based Deferred Renderer optimizations (D3D11_FEATURE_DATA_ARCHITECTURE_INFO)
HLSL minimum precision shader optimizations (D3D11_FEATURE_SHADER_MIN_PRECISION_SUPPORT)
DXGI 1.2 features for Stereo, Occlusion status notifications, Desktop Duplication, and NT Handle shared resources
Windows Store app ICoreWindow features of DXGI 1.2
WARP support for Feature Levels 11.0 and 11.1
Direct3D hardware support in Session 0
The DirectComposition API
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To me, that says they are definitely not. Why go to the effort of backporting only a few features? Its clear IE10 has some dependencies that need to be in Windows 7 so jumping straight to the conclusion that there is some change of heart afoot is wrong imo.

Its coincidental at best.
 
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