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MrMarc said:
Shame it'll probably be absolutely no good as an OS for gamers. DX10 is a joke, Vista murders game performance even on exceptional machines.

I really like the look of Windows 7 as well, but if it has the same underlying technology as Vista, I probably won't touch it with a bargepole...

And we have yet another shining example of "I didn't read the thread but let me open my mouth anyway."

 

And a good example of 'lets make a bullish assumption of a user just so I can get a flame out on their ass and feed my ego'.

I did read the thread, and you'd do well to re-read it and double check on yourself. Again I'll say, DX10 is a joke, and DX11 is going to have alot to show for itself that it isn't just going to be another forcing of (inevitably pointless) hardware upgrading for users. As for my comment on the underlying technology essentially being the same as Vista, I'm referring to the WinMin technology which was supposedly at one point going to be the basis for the new Windows OS. It looks like that has gone out of the window for the time being, nothing more has been said on that for a long time now.

My bitterness is coming from the fact I recently upgraded my machine to 4GB of Ram, and a 9800GT and guess what, games are still running worse in Vista with the highest ammount of memory you can get (for 32 bit) and DX10 hardware, than in XP under DX9 with considerably less memory.

Like I said - there's certainly a good chance Windows 7 will prove the same for PC gamers - Worthless.