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the software the developers choose to target, that was

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They're better than most PCs out there, and there won't be any ten year old OSes or 32 bit software using DX9 and at times not even optimized for SSE2. Also USB3 is default, so should drive some USB3 adoption which the PC has pretty much none of years later. The specs might not be amazing compared to high end gamer PCs but the games not being held back by the software will be a huge deal for me.

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[quote] PS4 even was a big "meh". Lets hope Microsoft knocks it out. http://www.gamespot.com/news/xbox-720-announcement-in-april-6404333 What would you like to see in a new Xbox?[/quote] Either way (I'm getting both) I'll be extremely happy to get away from the PC market, where ten year old tech is good enough for everyone! Yes, eventually the PC market will overshadow the consoles again, history repeats itself after all...but right no

Reply to Now Here's a Novel way to Get 'Touch' in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I'd rather wait for Leap or get a Logitech touchpad than use some silly pen.

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http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-also-falls-to-malware-small-number-of-pcs-affected The particular piece of malware likely in question here, which was a zero-day Java vulnerability injected into an iOS developer site, has been just one of a number of Java-related <a id="itxthook1" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-si

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[quote who="athelasloraiel" reply="9" id="3323133"]PC market is contracting, and if they don't enter tablets phones market, and dominate consoles they will go...[/quote] Kaveri, Kabini and Temash (their new architectures) are due this year. I plan to get Kaveri. They've already got a better proc than Intel for cheaper x86 tablets in the current stuff (since it has proper SATA and USB3 on it) but the resolution is pretty low and I imagine that'll be fixed

Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="267" id="3322767"] I see no point in debating/arguing the 'supposed' end of support dates.[/quote] I have no idea what there is to argue. People were annoyed that XP got special treatment, MS fixed it. There's not much to discuss. http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-vista-consumer-support-extended-to-2017 2012. I could

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[quote who="moshi" reply="262" id="3319378"]no changes since at least October 2010 http://web.archive.org/web/20101030031001/http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/lifecycle? the only thing that has changed is that consumer versions qualify for extendend support as well.[/quote] And that happened in 2012. clearly they forgot to update the top of the page

Reply to RTS’s aren’t dying. They’re waiting in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

It seems very ironic that we've had better hardware and software for years, yet very little changed until the new consoles were coming. PC gaming should have a new motto: no matter how things advance, nothing happens as everyones too afraid of ostracizing anyone. I'm going back to console gaming next gen at least until PC gaming gets back to being the gold standard. Properly optimized 64 bit games with DX11/equivalent won't just be just a

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EA also overpaid for Bioware, so they had to make that back (whether or not they have is not clear to me.) So I don't expect any more five year projects like DA:O...and since Bioware is moving to a much better engine for everything they shouldn't need anywhere near that.

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[quote who="starkers" reply="258" id="3319266"]Maybe so, but he was/is a Microsoft employee, and and maybe things have since changed with the release of Windows 8 and its slow uptake. [/quote] No, but it did change BEFORE Windows 8. I believe the original plan was 2013, but that changed since the contrast between XP and Vistas support end date was ridiculous.

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[quote who="starkers" reply="256" id="3319259"]though if my little bird is correct it will lose support mid-2013[/quote] Your little bird needs a fact check http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/lifecycle

Reply to Anyone Running The New UEFI Bios? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Now finally the 'Microsoft is trying to destroy their competition in illegal ways' FUD can stop. ...not that it will, but it can. This weekend, the Linux Foundation finally released its way to boot up Linux on a UEFI secure boot system, which <a id="itxthook0" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; display: inline; background-image: no

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[quote who="Phoon" reply="251" id="3318924"]Quoting vStyler, reply 250Her camera wasnt supported neither was her printer.. and that is the same problem that plagued Vista. It was NOT the fault of the OS, but rather the manufacturer's failure to produce drivers.[/quote] I liked Vista and I thought it had a lot of problems. Even long after SP1 it was very glitchy (forgetting folder settings, among other things) and I think some of it persisted even

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="211" id="3318267"]Re recent comments, yes, the tone needs to be 'argue the opinion' not 'argue the person'. it's sometimes a subtle difference but it's also the difference between lively 'debate' and 'voice removal'... Re BSOD and Win 8 - I have yet to see it...but then when 2000 came out people called it "rock-solid" [and compared to 98 it probably was] but I killed it on average 3 times a day. Fortunatel

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[quote who="MonsterMMORPG" reply="44" id="3317711"]J. Wilson really destroyed the D3[/quote] Jay Wilson was part of a team that agreed on what needed to be done and they did it. He did not destroy anything.

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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="180" id="3317746"]My mother has been using computers for the last 50+ years (she was weened as an IBM Operator), but she will be the first to tell you she is not an "experienced computer user".[/quote] This is relevant to me how? Are you really trying to make the argument that EVERY SINGLE PERSON who likes Windows 8 is clueless? I'd have two words for you, but I don't think they're terribly appropriate for forum discourse.

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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="173" id="3317576"]but any experienced computer user will find it sux.[/quote] Been using computers for 27 years now and I love it, so that's bullshit.

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[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="151" id="3316900"]I don't know, I think XP is still neck and neck with 7 according to usage statistics. Close. XP 39.51% to 7's 44.48%[/quote] Sure, in usage share XP might be. But with 8 out those statistics are less relevant now because many who loved 7 have moved on. They also don't account for popularity, pirated OSes, or people who haven't even bothered to try 7. Or the length of time XP was the newest Windows compare

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="147" id="3316872"]No, Vista wasn't Revolutionary...it was definitely evolutionary. Its only failing was it was released half-baked. Win 7 is simply Vista with the correct lead-time.[/quote] I would disagree with you, since they replaced the graphics system, the sound system, the networking code, and pretty much everything. Sure, the UI was evolutionary and a giant convoluted mess with tens of ways to do pretty much anything, the rest?&n

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="143" id="3316834"]Not every new idea is a good idea.[/quote] Which is exactly what people said with Vista, and yet here we are...with 7 likely being the most popular OS in their history. Really, this conversation goes in circles...around and around and around and around and we've probably said what there is to say. It was probably the same conversation people had when XP was the new thing, and the same conversation people had when 95 was th

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="136" id="3316764"]I really can't understand how anyone who uses Windows as a production machine can argue that Windows 8 isn't a significant step back. You kind of trivialized my point about how annoying it is to find files via Start by talking about being able to just type in the name rather than go to the charms (as if the HOW you access the search was the issue).[/quote] That was me. Because you were talking about all the extra steps.

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This being the internet, I thought he was just trying to be funny. :p

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Personally, I think if there's one thing that would be almost universally agreed on it's that MS is doing a really poor job of outlining their future plans. http://ventspace.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/follow-up-on-directxxna/ As developers, we need Microsoft to communicate clearly with us, in public . As MVPs we were asked to act as community representa

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[quote who="starkers" reply="121" id="3316458"]Well, I still haven't seen any compelling arguments as to why Win 8 sucks. There has been a couple of things for which are now done differently, and a couple of others for which there are perfectly acceptable workarounds... and a couple of others that are quite trivial and not that important. In other words, there's a whole load of whining going on about nothing... and frankly, I'm done debating it. Bye!<b