"nVidia activates a supercomputer in your PC..."

"John Lewis" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:30:45 -0500, "DotNettie"
wrote:


"John Lewis" wrote in message
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The problem is not nVidia's. The root problem is Microsoft's abysmal
support of 3rd-party developers. Survey the state of utilities,
3rd-party applications and add-in hardware across the PC industry
with
regard to their Vista readiness. Atrocious. Take a look at Adobe or
Matrox for example. Common denominator --- Microsoft. Usable build
of
Vista were very late and the documentation was very poor.

And the high-end graphics-card vendors have an additional layer of
problems since they also have to interface with a brand-new API...
called DX10/SM4.x, but a complete break in its graphics handling
from
anything that has gone before, requiring ground-up design of
compatible HARDWARE, with the drivers for that brand-new
hardware-architecture not only having to support Dx10 but also fully
support Dx9 for complete current (and legacy) software
compatibility.
Besides providing Vista-compatible drivers for current Dx9/SM3
hardware. Also, Microsoft saw fit to support OpenGL in Vista only
with an inefficicent DirectX wrapper.... which leaves the
graphics-card vendors to fill this hole too.

John Lewis

Thank you for your concise explanation of Microsoft's involvement in
this
mess.


Thanks for your appreciation.

My purely personal estimate of fault distribution on Vista readiness:
80% Microsoft, 20% nVidia....

nVidia does have to bear part of the blame, as they could have
prepared their customer-base much better, such that people would be
publicly well-informed on the state of the drivers with a list of the
outstanding issues and a proposed schedule for resolution. Informed
purchase decisions would have come from that openness and much better
customer-relations.

John Lewis

and if M$ held them to a non-disclosure agreement?
McG.

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:50:21 -0600, "McG."
wrote:



My purely personal estimate of fault distribution on Vista readiness:
80% Microsoft, 20% nVidia....

nVidia does have to bear part of the blame, as they could have
prepared their customer-base much better, such that people would be
publicly well-informed on the state of the drivers with a list of the
outstanding issues and a proposed schedule for resolution. Informed
purchase decisions would have come from that openness and much better
customer-relations.

John Lewis

and if M$ held them to a non-disclosure agreement?
McG.



in which case back to 100% Microsoft fault.

John Lewis