Microsoft’s Windows 10 event has just started. Therefore, we’ve decided to live blog and report the most important details from it. Naturally, expect separate posts for new games that may – or may not – be announced during this event. Microsoft’s Windows 10 event will last two hours, and those interested can watch it live here. Enjoy!
-Terry Myerson steps on the scene
-Windows 10 will have a start bar.
-Seamless transition from Windows 7 and 8 to 10.
-1.7 million insiders. 800K pieces of feedback. 200K topics shared.
-Free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 for the first year.
-Start Menu Can Go Fullscreen
-Windows 10 will elegantly transform on the fly from tablet version to desktop version
-Cortana being showcased, running on Windows 10 PC
-Office Apps showcased running on Windows 10 for touch devices
-New Browser announced, codenamed Project Spartan
-Project Spartan has new rendering engine, new look, and new features
-Project Spartan showcased running on PC
-Cortana will help you while browsing the Internet (in before using her for kinky reasons)
-Phil Spencer steps on the scene to talk about gaming on Windows 10
-Gaming on PC will be more social and interactive
-Xbox App announced for Windows 10 and showcased
-Crosstalk between PC and Xbox apps
-Windows 10 DVR functionality demoed, similar to Shadowplay. Allows you to capture the last seconds of your game. Works with all games
-Spencer starts talking about DirectX
-DX12 showcased
-50% performance increase promised with DX12 on CPU bound games
-Hundreds of studios adopting DX12 (Epic Games and Unity among them)
-Fable Legends announced for Windows 10 PC
-Xbox One games to be streamed on Windows 10 devices
-New build of Windows 10 coming next week for insiders
-Microsoft creates HoloStudio to enable users to make their own holograms
-Microsoft HoloLens demonstrated
-Shows ends
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Praise the lord! 😛
for 1 year!!!!!!!!!!!
Are there still fools wondering around this capitalistic age we live in that still believe in free things? Ignorance is truly bliss
I couldn’t tell if you are being serious and didn’t get the joke, or if you got the joke and intended to make a serious comment :/
WTF is Microsoft smoking, they don’t understand “free” or “open source”. Also, Cortana will be the first thing I disable, reminds me of that paper clip in MS Word.
What do you mean they don’t understand “free”?
They just said Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for users of 8.1, 8.1 phone, and 7, for the first year.
That’s the definition of “free”
You miss read, only till now do they understand it and that’s probably for an agenda. Maybe their agenda is worrying about Steam OS or Linux because Microsoft don’t give their OS or software away for free for no reason.
Is it free for a year or free for people with valid Windows keys and after a year it won’t be free?
I’m not sure cause to me this could mean two different things:
1) Windows 10 is subscription based and first year of it is free
2)You have one year to move to Win 10, after that you’ll have to pay to upgrade
Well exactly, I don’t trust Microsoft one bit, WIndows 10 for “free” sounds suspect, though they do make most of their money from OEMs not retail.
i bet they’re going to put microtransaction into their OS. you want cortana ? give us 5$ . sorry you can’t use DX12 because you don’t bought the premium 50$ box. you can’ access windows store, it’s 15$ a month. you didn’t update your windows in the last 5days, you windows will be deactivated. judging by AOE online and MS Flight and that another AOE game on win8 and the new fable, it’s going to be another forced online s**t with tons of restrictions, bugs and other stuff
LOL
This.
If they announce Cloud Integration for Win 10, I’m willing to bet my 3rd leg they’ll pull an Office 365 & make it sub-based.
That, or it’s a one-year free trial, with a “pay or get locked out” option afterwards.
I can say with 93+% usage the last thing they care about is linux. Its crazy when i even hear anything different. I worked with a person within microsoft during my college years and this was also around 7 and he told me most people within Microsoft think linux is a joke except for servers.
I wouldn’t call Android a joke, it just shows what Linux can do in a new market. People called gaming on Linux a joke, now it has Steam and AAA game titles and over 200 games. Microsoft contributes to the Linux kernel with their virtualisation and Microsoft have to accept Linux because more of their customers use it in different ways with Windows. One of the biggest devs in PC gaming(Valve) support Linux, John Carmack is also a big supporter of Linux and open source.
Some of the biggest Hollywood movies use Linux to do the CGI effects with Maya and SoftImage, NVIDIA’s business is 15% Linux customers.
Android is limited to phones/mobile and you can’t compare it to a desktop version of Linux and also is just another of the countless versions of Linux.
Steam OS is dead, simply can’t compete with Windows, and definitely has much lover support from hardware vendors so it’s not a great alternative for game developers who will be targeting Windows like always.
Desktop home users or business users markets are dominated by Microsoft and nothing will change.
Also Windows 10 is a free upgrade in the 1st year because Microsoft intends to push hard it’s Unified Store plans. It’s quite logical.
You can compare it to the desktop version because it’s the same, it’s just that Microsoft have had 20 year as a monopoly, they see Linux as a threat in the future and they usually kill anything that even starts to be a treat. Linux has over 5% share on desktop, it’s about 88% Windows.
Linux has been a hope for desktop for many years now and so it will remain.
Linux has about 1.5% share on desktop actually.
Yeah after so many years and is also free like always.
Linux has always been about if you find it useful use it, it’s not a product like Windows has been for over 20 years.
I just told you they don’t see linux as a threat on the desktop/laptop market if anything saying the word linux is not enough to justify your claims you need to let us know what version.
Various vendors sell Linux like DELL and with Ubuntu.
Yes and they usually come with both even. Its almost impossible to even find them. Dude also keep in mind i love android and use my nexus 7 every day
Linux is free, nobody sells it.
Laptops and PC that don’t have Windows installed come with a linux version instaled to see if the device works but over 99% of the people that buy such a computer will eventually instal Windows on it.
DELL sell it with their selected laptops, HP used to sell SUSE with their PCs. Get up to date dude, you seem to know nothing.
DELL sells the laptops not the Linux OS the comes preinstalled on them. Nobody would buy a laptop because it has Linux installed, they buy them because they are cheaper than the ones that come with Windows.
gaming on linux is still a complete joke barely any new games use it. Also android is linux but android isn’t on the desktop/laptop market.
As linus himself even said
“Linux runs everything, everywhere, but Linus Torvalds still wants it to rule on one place it doesn’t: The desktop”
Why is Linux a complete joke when it has over 200 games and Steam? So. You don’t have to have every game to play games, just games in general.
Desktop isn’t a big money maker any more for Microsoft, it’s mobiles, something Android is good in. Also, Windows started off really as a work and take home OS.
Ok i see no dying light no GTA no resident evil no games that people actually want to play the games i see are mainly indie games its a joke and the amount of people who game on steam linux only are a probably VERY VERY limited market.
Not the point, it’s a growing market, something that was never there years ago. People like you said Steam will never happen, games will never sell on Linux, AAA games will never be on Linux.
I actually still see no AAA game on linux. I don’t even think valve has a steam controller yet? Like its just a mess right now.
Metro Last Light is one, you do know you can use an XBox 360 controller in Linux right?
Keep in mind i’m a network admin at a college i find unix very useful but not linux. I know linux has improved over the years and you can install ubuntu and you won’t run into driver issues anymore but still what’s the point? Like my previous example its like buying a Wii U only in the gaming world and at least the wii u has exclusives people want to play.
I’m not going to educate you here, I mean if you don’t want to use it and it doesn’t work for you then don’t bother arguing with me. I’ve used Linux for over 10 years as a primary desktop OS, suits me fine.
Yes and it will always have such a limited market like that on the desktop. I met plenty of linux people actually my friend right now is a huge fan and he is using 7 right now on some brain program since it can’t even work on linux over limited support, he loves linux when he is programming actually. When you use a linux machine you probably know you also have to use windows even if you don’t like it. Its not the other way around. I doubt you could educate me on anything evolving linux. I tried many distro’s and they work great but that’s not even the point my original claim was linux is a joke in its current state for gaming.
A joke in the case even the games releasing this month don’t support it such as dying light. I’m guessing if your a gamer you will just switch to windows for that.
Say what you want, having Steam and over 200 GAMES it’s a joke when Linux was looked at as a joke before then and it’s still a game because you can’t play your WINDOWS game, LOL
I don’t really care though, use what you want, don’t laugh what other people use.
yeah i can’t play resident evil or GTA5 on it or battlefield or arma 3 or any other game i can think of. Its like owning a wii u except worse. I would hate gaming if i only played these games. I’m looking at the list right now.
Dota2-Team fortress 2, they have CiV at least left 4 dead(that’s like 8 years old) Minecraft YEH. OH MY GOD Euro truck simulator i take it back linux has many great games.
I mean you even have Goat simulator. I feel like i’m looking at a 3rd world country i’m actually sad now. THANKS
Use Windows for games then, I do, it’s not worth arguing about, it’s not like you don’t have choice but you seem to be moaning about choices.
Well i actually do feel sad now wasn’t making that part up it was like looking at games for mobile almost, i’m done with this discussion i actually hope Microsoft faces major competition one day that way we can see better products.
Well you’re criticising competition, with a mind set like that you can’t claim what you said as valid or real, it’s just shallow words.
Well by looking at the game list and actually feeling sad i think i just did.
See, ungrateful and considering Linux had less than a handful on that list a few years ago well that’s your problem not everyone else’s.
Ungrateful that’s like saying i’m ungrateful for mobile games which i am.
meh. here’s a list for you.
1) Metro Redux
2) Rome 2 Total War
4) Civ Beyond Earth
5) Project Cars (Updated from here down 29/10/2014)
6) Oddworld New’n Tasty
7) Football manager 2015
8) Raven’s cry
9) Cities: Skylines
10) Empire Total War
11) Darksider I and II
12) Age of Wonders III
13) Gauntlet
14) Company of Heroes 2
15) Unreal Tournament
16) Homefront The Revolution
17) Star Citizen
18) Warhammer Eternal Crusade (Updated from here down 30/10/2014)
19) Chivalry Medieval Warfare
20) MX vs ATV Supercross
21) Outlast (Updated from here down 05/11/2014)
Not to bad but not enough for linux only gaming. Project cars surprised me a bit. Out of all those games i would probably play 1 of them also take out football manager your not winning any awards there.
You asked, I gave you a list and you learn something new today, at least you’re not so narrow minded now. You know there is something called “Google”, use to see up and coming games on Steam for Linux instead of just making up stuff you heard about Linux. Funny how it takes a long conversation for you to realise this, do your research next time about something you criticise.
The point remains we still need to have windows for gaming for the next coming years and maybe you should take some programming classes so you realize it takes probably 3 months to port a game to linux, hard enough already to get these developers to make games for PC let alone linux. A list of measly 20 games isn’t enough even more so when some of them are 10+ years old or so i think.
All I said is that there are plenty of games for Linux, I never said anything about giving Windows up for Linux in that regard, you seem to make that assumption. Anyone with half a brain knows Windows is the only serious OS for all gaming, I never claim otherwise only to say Linux has plenty of games, regardless of whether you like them or not
yeah like any other platform hell even android has lots of games that’s my point.
The greatest competition Microsoft now has comes from Windows 7, quite an ironic situation.
Taking gaming in consideration as a main focus for your PC, other OS’s like Linux and OSX are irrelevant, even Windows 7 would be a bad choice as W8.1 runs new games considerably better.
And Windows has hundreds of thousands of games available and they are not limited to Steam.
Keep in mind steam only has 200 indie games mainly with maybe a few AAA games but its rare. Future development from other major companies aren’t even making games for it at all.
So what? What don’t you understand about games are being sold on Linux as a viable business?
Its not if it was they would be doing it. The united states is a money base country if they thought it was worth it they would do it.
What are you talking about? Steam sells over 200 games on Linux and growing, even AAA games, 5 years ago Linux didn’t even have Steam and barely any AAA titles.
What AAA game i don’t actually see one game i would want. Not to mention what’s the point of switching if they don’t have all the games i want. I mean its like buying a Wii U only in the gaming world
Viable because they sell much, much better on Windows and not very viable it they are Linux exclusives.
200 games are nothing. Just look at the newer ones. Want to play Dragon Age Inquisition? Not on Linux. Any Assassin’s Creed? Not on Linux. Most popular MOBAs? Not on Linux. Blizzard games? Not on Linux. Legacy games? Not on Linx. And the list goes on and on.
I’ve got like 150 games in my Steam library. Roughly a dozen are Linux-compatible. I would have to discard over 90% of my Steam library if I were to switch to Linux. And I’d be surprised if this isn’t the norm.
It’s a good step forward from where Linux gaming was a few years ago, but the games library is pretty pitiful compared to Windows.
Dota 2 isn’t a MOBA?
And it is true, we have not seen the support from publishers like EA or Blizzard, but that does not mean we won’t ever. If more people adopt Linux then the games will come. My library of 215 games shrinks down to a measly 77 for Linux, but that is a lot better than what it was even a year ago.
It’s funny that you mention legacy games, because ironically enough a lot of games from the late 90’s run better on my Linux machine than they do in Windows 8.1
I think I specifically said “Most(!) popular MOBAs”.
Another group of games that don’t appear on Linux are Japanese ones. Right now Jap. companies are discovering Steam as a western digital market. Final Fantasy, Valkyria Chronicles, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, etc.
We’ll see where Linux gaming is in a few years’ time, but right now it’s
simply not viable for almost everyone. 98% of all game studios simply don’t have a reason to roll out their games for Linux, and so they won’t. If 77 out of 215 of your games run on Linux then you’re luckier than most.
The initial adoption rate was low, but it has increased greatly since Valve announced Steam OS. A lot of games that did not ship with support are getting ported. Just some games to mention:
Amnesia (both Games)
Bastion
Borderlands (2 and pre)
Counter-Strike
Dead Island
Dota 2
FTL
HL2
Hotline Miami
Killing Floor
L4D2
Limbo
Outlast
Portal 2
Postal 2
Rust
Civ V
Civ Beyond Earth
Wasteland 2
Even much older games are getting ported. Linux previously was only enjoyed (desktop wise) by IT Workers and programmers, and is now becoming a force to be reckoned with.
Actually there is an Android build that runs on x86 chips.
Yeah i use linux base OS’s every day be it in a tablet or in a server. Still it has a long way to go for gaming and W10 and Directx 12 is coming.
Steam OS is no threat, haven’t heard anything about it for many months. It’s still in Beta? Anyway who cares, dx12 is coming.
Yeah i know, its never going to happen people claimed it was going to happen for years now even linus knows this.
People don’t even understand the man hours of doing such a task supporting linux and windows at the same time. If they took programming 101 they would, and using more programmers doesn’t always help.
Actually i’m pretty sure valve has crappy programmers since they made a MAJOR noob mistake just recently.
it will be a threat in 10 years i guess. after all it’s valve, steam is now a big thing but 10 years ago when it started it was nothing.
In 10 years the world could end.
What you say doesn’t mean anything, but from how things move in the present SteamOS has 0 chances do do anything in the the next 2-3 years.
The thing is, even though Steam OS is still in Beta, there are other Linux Distributions that have been working (arguably better than windows) for a long time now. Hell, Steam OS is based off another Distro called Debian and Debian has been in use since 1993. Of course Microsoft is scared of Steam OS, just think about it. Windows 10 has a HUGE focus on gaming. Microsoft showed off Game Streaming, and the new social features of Windows 10. All of this is integrated into the OS.
Steam OS will also have game streaming from one device to another as well as the social features already found in Steam.
Now imagine if Microsoft unveiled all of this and siad you had to pay $100 for Windows 10 and yet Valve offered Steam OS for free? It would not look good for Microsoft because Linux always has, and always will be free and open-source.
Plus Valve has already announced that at GDC in March, Steam OS will finally come out of Beta and announcements will be made about Steamboxes.
There are always other Linux Distributions that are “better” than Windows, tell me something new.
There is no reason Microsoft should be scared of Steam OS, which has Zero real relevance on desktop. A lot more people are using the beta Windows 10 than SteamOS.
Windows 10 is focused on gaming because of the XboxOne not Steam OS. Microsoft clearly wants to make the XboxOne more appealing and better integrate their OS on multiple devices.
Linux always always was free and still very few use it.
Yeah again with the Steamboxes, probably some overpriced custom PC’s.
0 relevance on desktop? Have you demoed Steam OS? It still has a desktop just like any other gui enabled linux distro. It just also happens to have an interface that is easy to use with a controller.
I never said Windows 10 has a gaming focus because of Steam OS it is obvious they are trying to push the Xbox One.
The reason why very few people use Linux in terms of the average desktop user (not gamers) is simply because OEMs don’t ship their PCs with Linux on them by default.
The reasons why gamers have been slow to adopt Linux is because it has lacked the hardware support from manufacturers relying entirely on the community to write the drivers, and the small game library. Nvidia in the last 2 years has started offering support for Linux because of Android and Valve pushing Steam OS. On the games side of things, we have seen a huge rise in games supported on Linux thanks to Steam OS.
Most OEM’s ship part of the PCs, Laptops with Free DOS, Ubuntu etc. but people just instal Windows on them.
Also yes 0 relevance on desktop plain and simple.
Now that is just not true. Free DOS? You’re kidding yourself man.
For starters FreeDOS isn’t even a Linux distro it isnt even in the same kernel family.
Secondly the only devices that ship with Ubuntu are designed for systems administrators who probable will install a different OS…. A different Linux Distro.
OEMS may have shipped devices with FreeDOS back before the XP days but nobody uses it as the primary OS anymore. Plain and simple.
I’m wasting my breath here. I’m out.
I worked at an electronics store a while back and half of the laptops were sold with Ubuntu installed and costumers were always asking us how can they install Windows instead, nobody want Linux in their PCs.
Who ever thought a Linux based OS would be a threat to IOS and Apple? LOL
Again phones and PC’s are different.
Linux has been available and free on PC’s long before anybody thought of Android.
Do you know why Android is a threat to iOS? Because there are companies like Samsung, Asus, LG, Acer, Sony, and HTC behind it. If people had to install Android on their phones themselves they wouldn’t do it same in reverse.
What does Steam OS have that just about every other Linux Distro in the past has been missing? Yep the backing by manufacturers. Much like Android phones Steam boxes will be made by a variety of companies at many different price points.
Companies like Samsung, Sony, HTS which suffered loses recently, interesting.
Which manufactures are backing up SteamOS? It doesn’t matter anyway on the PC market anyway because and educated PC gamer would never buy a prebuilt overpriced PC.
The thing is game developers don’t back up SteamOS, so you can already consider it dead.
Damn I forgot all about Paper Clip, having never used it…… LOL! Cheers ;D
I’ve formatted my copy of Windows 7 over 10 times, and after that it automatically locks you out. So you have to call Microsoft to prove that you actually bought it, with giving them your serial code over the phone. So for the past year or-so, I’ve been using a pirated crack to use my payed copy of Windows, all because I didn’t want to be hanging on the phone, being passed around from dept, to dept whilst they benefit from me being on a premium number. And that is what they do, grrr.
Activating over the phone is usually if you change hardware like new Motherboard, chipset(which I did recently). I use my wife’s laptop number so it knows it’s legal. LOL
But I didn’t do either. I built it all on one system with neither of those changes, weird :I
i think re-formating for more than 1 or 2 times in relatively close time might trigger their security thing.
it is as almost it wasnt designed for a system that supports hardware upgrades.
And that massive number you have to input over the phone is hardly user friendly either.
AHAHAHAH pirated copy>drm.
Learn it ms.
happened to me on win8.1, also paid copy, btw i uninstalled it. it also happened to me with Dragon Age Inquisition, tried activating it 100times until it accepted my copy is real and not pirated :))
But pirates never prosper lol :/
:)) i even downloaded a crack for DA:I to run the game i paid for but it decided to activate my copy after that many try. i only changed my GPU, jeez, where are we going ?
So you had it activated then it deactivated itself when you changed your gpu?
yep, it was active last i checked (few days ago), then i changed my gpu then it said you must activate your game, but everytime i tried to activate the game, it says blah blah try again later.
Because that happen wait NO. For some reason i never had to call Microsoft for 8.1 and i installed it on my desktop and laptop several times(usually over me trying different OSs not because i had to)
With 7 i just have to call and try my best to understand the person on the phone its usually a fast process
actually it happens to me as well when i change my motherboard and processor, the win 7 was not detected as legal, so i called my local Microsoft CS, she request my serial code and then she gave me another series of codes (longer then the regular serial code), to re-activate my windows copy, the phone call last for about 1 to 2 minutes and fyi my country (indonesia) is well known for its lousy customer service, but in this case (in my case anyway) it was fast, helpful and professional.
ps: mine was not a premium number, my cs contact is a regular number and i call at night.
You can call them free on skype
If i can use it for Skype text chat while i’m doing other stuff i’ll use it, otherwise it will be instanly <Turn Windows Features On or Off < Piss off Cortana
Serious?
I was fully expecting to have to shell out a c-note.
“-Seamless transition from Windows 7 and 8 to 10.”
Meaning?
I stopped watching after that hairy guy mentioned he’s gluten free
http://www.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/%E2%80%9CGluten-Free-Ebola%E2%80%9D.jpg
Crossplay and Xbox to PC streaming, now if only I could use my mouse and keyboard to play Halo.
“-50% performance increase promised with DX12 on CPU bound games”
PFFTT mantle said that too.
-50%
This can be seen as minus 50% lol.
i directly quoted it
Yes I know, not making fun of you. Just saying the way it’s written in main post and since it’s Microsoft about PC gaming one can wonder lol.
well unless you have a R9 285, or a Nvidia 970, 980 or soon 960 you don’t get all that DX12 has to offer so you have to wait for AMD’s 300 series. A real shame since Mantle is gonna get dismantled and 290/290X owners are gonna just remember Mantle as a thing of the past once DX12 hits the market. Sure older cards will use it on a API lvl but the big advantage will be the full feature set if dev’s use it properly in the future of game development.
Side note is this proves that D3D12 is infact done and that M$ was really working on it for a long time now. As AMD/Nvidia noted at GCD 2014. MS is just waiting on Windows10 to be ready for the ship out stamp of approval. And that Mantle was just a simple PR stunt to sell AMD hardware since let’s face it they are on the verge of going bankrupt with their 2014 annual report. Which in the end is not good if you are a AMD fan.
People thinking if AMD goes under that Intel/Nvidia prices will just sky rocked. But this is not true because if they did nobody would have a reason to buy new tech once it hits the market and the majority will wait a year after… The only thing that will happen if AMD kicks the bucket is performance lvl’s will go down without proper competition.
The real features of DX12 will only be beneficial once they got adopted by devs so buying a new product before seeing what devs are upto is just waste of money since you will see a newer and better product after one year anyway.
Also Mantle served it’s purpose already. Maybe Microsoft had plans for DX12 before Mantle but we didn’t heard any rumors about it before Mantle went public which means either Microsoft was too lazy or was not doing anything at all, they only speed up development after they saw Mantle and the next version of OpenGL is also happening because of Mantle so for gamers in general Mantle was stepping stone.
R9 290/290X are not selling just because of Mantle, they still have a lot of performance and value under the hood even if you use them with DX11. They are not plagued by 4 GB vram allocation issues like GTX 970 so 4 GB or 8 GB versions offer something real instead of just 3.5 GB vram. The wider bus help them perform better at higher resolutions that’s why these one year old cards can stil outperform newer Maxwells at 4k.
I can’t help but surprise at your logic that you don’t have any problem with a company going bankrupt just because you don’t use thier product. You think nothing will happen if they go bankrupt ? lets consider the example of Intel since AMD is far behind in Desktop market segment so we can call it practically out of business. Do you know how much time it takes for an Intel processor to go down in price ? Do you see any significant leap in performance per Intel processor ? it’s all just 5 – 10% improvements. Do you know the prices of Broadwell processors ? and most importantly when they will go down ?
All these questions exist because AMD is out of processor business. Speaking about GPUs GTX 780/780 Ti prices only went down once AMD released R9 290/290X, the same will happen to GTX 970/980 once AMD bring R9 300 series to the table, without these cards I don’t see any reason for Nvidia to slash prices. So I don’t know what reason you’re using to say nothing will happen if they go bankrupt. I don’t want AMD to be alive because I am their user, I want them alive because I want someone to keep Nvidia prices in check otherwise maybe you’re happy to waste your money on GTX Titans but not me. I am happy by the fact that my 450$ card can actually out perform a 1000$ card so basically I didn’t got robbed.
what does it all mean? explanation pls!
so absolutely nothing, not a single news worthy stuff, but hey you can have your star menu which you had for decades, lol
but but dx12….it will be good ms promised.
Agreed.
I have “full faith” in MS…they deliver on their promises!
Virtual desktops as well, something other OS’s have had for a very long time. :p
50%performance boost for future games or existing games?
Future, DirectX is backward compatible of course but it’s just legacy in the end, it doesn’t somehow make older DX versions of games run better. For example, when games have a DX11 renderer and a DX12 renderer, the DX12 renderer will run up to 50% better, it’s going to work like Mantle does in that sense. On the software side, none DX12 GPUs supposed to get a boost too because DX12 is not all hardware feature set.
Wait, so after a year, i will have to pay to continue using 10? Or does anyone who upgraded in that first year Windows 10 release will get the upgrade for free?
No, everyone who upgrades in the first year gets it for free and the updates cost the same as a Sony shill’s wages. Free.
Its called TRIAL, not FREE.
I’m quite excited for HoloLens. Fact I’m excited for anything virtual reality or augmented reality.
this guy http://i.imgur.com/zqgtTJu.png
Hololens looks amazing. Hopefully it won’t turn out to be a train wreck like Kinect. It looks really good. For some reason, Kinect looked funny and gimmick from the very first day.
So basically they said: Get Windows 10 with exclusive DX12 to play all those awesome console ports in their true 2007-Crysis graphix heavan. Try it free for 12 months!
This is really big failed. Why would i want to buy an XB1 to stream 720p 30fps to PC that is playing natively at 1440p? Microsoft never give up in shoving XB crap on PC gamers face.
I think its a bad idea to let pc have xbox one exclusives.whats the point of getting the xbox one when you get the exclusives now on pc..did they just shoot them selves in the foot?…id just buy a ps4 now and up grade my pc..no point i see to have a xbox one now..what do you guys think?