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05-13-2008, 11:34 AM
|  | You Magnificent Bastard! | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | Windows 7 takes less memory, is more efficient
So sayeth the Gates. And the people rejoiced.
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Originally Posted by gates
We're hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I'm very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections up to the mobile phone, so those scenarios connect up well to make it a great platform for the best gaming that can be done, to connect up to the thing being done out on the Internet, so that, for example, if you have two personal computers, that your files
automatically are synchronized between them, and so you don't have a lot of work to move that data back and forth.
| Mesh much? And you thought Live Mesh was another soon-to-be-extinct MS push? Microsoft Release
As always, take with one grain of salt, call me when it works as advertised.
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05-13-2008, 12:07 PM
|  | The Tux | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: I Live At StrafeRight
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| | | Rofl... Its going to be interesting to see the requirements for Windows 7 then... I wonder if you will be able to run it on a very old machine...
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05-13-2008, 12:40 PM
|  | Jack pwns my FACE | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Well above sea level.
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| | | hey, i'm all for being more efficient and being a "great platform for the best gaming."
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05-13-2008, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by FuzzyLogik | Corrected for accuracy. Call me when Linux or even Apple provide an OS for gaming, oh and when the developers decide to make versions that work with them.
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05-13-2008, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by FrenchArbitor | Calling FrenchArbitor.... most of the iD games have Linux versions (i.e. ET:QW, Quake, Doom etc), Neverwinter Nights 1 and (eventually) 2 will have Linux ports. Not to mention Steam games work almost perfectly under Wine.
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05-13-2008, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by SonicSpeed | yeah... that really didn't help your cause all that much sonic
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05-13-2008, 02:29 PM
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| | | heh nothing against linux (rather like Ubuntu), but I think Mac has more games :P
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05-13-2008, 02:31 PM
| | You Magnificent Bastard! | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | until someone approaches at least a 25% market share in desktops, desktop gaming will always be designed with Windows in mind first. (I'm sure there are a few exceptions, please don't bother). Simple economics.
And counting a port 6-8 months after PC release is hardly relevant to that particular conversation.
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05-13-2008, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark | Well Steam games count for a large portion of many of the sR peoples games.
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05-13-2008, 02:36 PM
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| | | it was the "almost perfectly" that threw me off
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