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Windows Vista and the Indie developer nightmare!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:52 am
by Rescator
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=12314
Will new features in Windows Vista have a chilling effect on indie PC game development? In this exclusive Gamasutra opinion piece, WildTangent founder and CEO Alex St. John highlights obstructive security controls embedded in Vista that threaten to do just that.
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:56 pm
by Character
I do not know what to think of Vista.
Until worldwar 3, big companies keep on dominating the world.
They can do whatever they want and we have no choice but to follow.
Poor us.
For now I'll stick to XP.
(interesting story)
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:28 pm
by Edwin Knoppert
Me personally too, at the office we have no choice but buying at least one version for testing purposes.
No drm misery for me.. (yet)
Besides, i have XP for 1 a 2 years, i have 0 need to make a swap..
Re: Windows Vista and the Indie developer nightmare!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:19 pm
by ricardo
In the interest of full disclosure I should make it clear that in a previous life time I was responsible for all of Microsoft’s OS strategy for games and media, from writing the original DirectX development plan, to managing Microsoft’s relationships with the industries leading game developers. 10 years after launching DirectX 1.0, I still have strong opinions and feelings about how to make Windows a great game platform, and probably feel a stronger sense of pique than most when I see Microsoft making careless or callous mistakes that impact game developers.
It’s perhaps ironic that I run my own online game publishing company now and have become a dependent customer of the platform and technologies I once worked to create. Some of you might call it “justice” -- if it is, I wish it for my successors working on Vista."
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:29 pm
by Rook Zimbabwe
I hate VISTA
I admit I liked it better when it was named LONGHORN, but thats the Texian in me!!!
:roll: before anybody starts a stupid flame... Texian is a word... NOT invented by Bush :roll:
Still I have to support it for several Food Service BOH servers are considering upgrades. In spite of warnings about the current lack of drivers.
I went to Win2000 early and though the lack of drivers issue then hit some people I had no issues except for the MUSTEK scanner I had and I simply recoded a file to work WITH the driver and ran that in front.
But I digress...
I hate Vista.