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Windows 8 'largely irrelevant' to PC users: IDC

article published on 6 December, 2011

Users unlikely to want to upgrade, IDC says. As part of its "Worldwide System Infrastructure Software 2012 Top 10 Predictions," research group IDC examined the Windows 8 operating system, and what it could expect from the market next year. The group expects that Microsoft will have Windows 8 available to be installed in new PCs by August 2012, but it does not expect it to gain much ... [ read the full article ]

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keola37
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_ 		6. December 2011 @ 08:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i am sure they will make a DirectX 12 or 13 or whatever and then make it only available on Windows 8, thereby "encouraging" PC gamers to upgrade.
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Interestx
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_ 		6. December 2011 @ 10:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If it was cheap & an easy safe upgrade I could see private buyers being interested (aside from the usual new PC buyers) but besides a few interface tweaks I'm hearing nothing that has me especially interested in it.
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hearme0
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_ 		6. December 2011 @ 16:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by keola37:
 i am sure they will make a DirectX 12 or 13 or whatever and then make it only available on Windows 8, thereby "encouraging" PC gamers to upgrade.
Yeah...........that would suck!
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patrick_
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_ 		7. December 2011 @ 04:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
so a file copy function that doesn't stall when doing more than one copy at a time is irrelevant?
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Tarsellis
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_ 		13. December 2011 @ 17:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hearme0:
Originally posted by keola37:
 i am sure they will make a DirectX 12 or 13 or whatever and then make it only available on Windows 8, thereby "encouraging" PC gamers to upgrade.
Yeah...........that would suck!

It doesn't matter to the technically competent. There are work arounds that get higher versions of DirectX installed on the platforms they're not supposed to support. I've got DX11 on XP right now.
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keola37
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_ 		14. December 2011 @ 22:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Tarsellis:
Originally posted by hearme0:
Originally posted by keola37:
 i am sure they will make a DirectX 12 or 13 or whatever and then make it only available on Windows 8, thereby "encouraging" PC gamers to upgrade.
Yeah...........that would suck!

It doesn't matter to the technically competent. There are work arounds that get higher versions of DirectX installed on the platforms they're not supposed to support. I've got DX11 on XP right now.
LOL....

always some person has to try and PROVE he is better than everyone else.

btw.. there is a difference between being "technically competent" and just being someone who is too cheap to buy Win7.
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