Microsoft's Vista successor is on schedule to hit stores in 150 days, but pricing could be a barrier, warns Dell.
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.
Vista itself wasn't cheap, so it isn't looking good for 7. Here's hoping there's a good deal for multiple licenses, particularly with many households now having more than one PC.
In theory, I'd like to get 7 Home Premium on my work PC, my HTPC and my notebook. But as with most shoppers these days, I don't wanna break the bank. Under £100 for three licenses would do nicely. :)
Well I went and paid around £80 for an OEM Home Premium 64bit vista so what happens with those that went and bought those versions? I guess we get nothing but not a problem. If it's around the same price again I will go buy it.
If pricing it not under my radar then mininova FTW
Yes. Good news.
If Microsoft does not get the pricing right and still believe that everyone is willing to pay $400-$500 for an operating system, they will have shot themselves in the foot once again. They need to come up with a better pricing scheme than Vista. Should they give Vista users a discount to upgrade? In fact, some big shot actually admitted in a letter that was exposed to the public that Vista was a mistake. Yikes!
With Windows 7, they have listened to feedback and did their best to make a OS that looked and feel similar to Vista, but was faster and lighter on hardware requirements. They succeeded in doing so. The only roadblock they have left is to get the darn pricing right so that users actually want to buy it and not bootleg it!