I think that its great that DX10 is going to be Vista only and they wiped the slate clean. It will be a couple of years before its widely used, because the hardware needs to saturate through the market before Developers support it in games.
DX10 is supposed to be a huge jump over DX9, and would require a lot of changes to XP's core to get it to run properly.
I think its a good thing to lose backwards compatibility in DX10 and have a DX9 fallback to keep people up and running for the mid term. Its all this compatibility that holds the PC back. You have to draw the line somewhere and start over, to me it seems as good a time as ever.
In a couple of years from now, 80% of us will be using Vista anyway, just like we almost all got XP.
Don't see a big deal here at all, and look forward to DX10 :)
DX10 is supposed to be a huge jump over DX9, and would require a lot of changes to XP's core to get it to run properly.
I think its a good thing to lose backwards compatibility in DX10 and have a DX9 fallback to keep people up and running for the mid term. Its all this compatibility that holds the PC back. You have to draw the line somewhere and start over, to me it seems as good a time as ever.
In a couple of years from now, 80% of us will be using Vista anyway, just like we almost all got XP.
Don't see a big deal here at all, and look forward to DX10 :)