Valve boss Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 a catastrophe on PC gaming

[inAbag]

Ugh, you had to spit on Origin.... The bad rep on Origin is from users who simply are close minded or who hate on EA. People will always hate on EA, but origin has not caused me any issues and others who share these same sentiments also find no problems with it.

I have to agree. So far Origin is doing very well. If compared to how Steam did it during it's first few years I can say that Origin does it much better. Still room for improvements but it does the job pretty good so far.

[Lauren]

I have to agree. So far Origin is doing very well. If compared to how Steam did it during it's first few years I can say that Origin does it much better. Still room for improvements but it does the job pretty good so far.

This, but it's annoying you can't gift stuff.

[Commander32]

Maybe we can beg em to add this feature lol.

but Origin is not too bad, as long its always improving and as long as we give proper non whiny and no-nonsense feedback we should be good.

[Kyang]

Of course. That is the general trend from past Windows releases.

The myth about the tick-tock of Windows releases is only just a myth. Every major release of Windows was widely criticized. The follow up release that "fine-tunes" the OS is then graciously praised. The reality is that every release has really just been a continual improvement.

Meanwhile only those who buy into the hype or FUD believe that every other Windows is good. It's all very reminiscent of the short term memories apocalyptic doomsayers have.

I like the fact they kept her at level 2-3:

http://1d4chan.org/images/e/eb/How_to_shot_animoot.png

Talking about anime, I wonder when is that we are going to have a Window 8 OS-tan girl ready...

I like the fact that they deleted the high heels they had in the first version of their concept.

Crowd sourced OS-tans seem to have stagnated. It took an official OS-tan to establish one for Windows 7.

[CNCGeek101]

The myth about the tick-tock of Windows releases is only just a myth. Every major release of Windows was widely criticized. The follow up release that "fine-tunes" the OS is then graciously praised. The reality is that every release has really just been a continual improvement.

Meanwhile only those who buy into the hype or FUD believe that every other Windows is good. It's all very reminiscent of the short term memories apocalyptic doomsayers have.





I like the fact that they deleted the high heels they had in the first version of their concept.

Crowd sourced OS-tans seem to have stagnated. It took an official OS-tan to establish one for Windows 7.

Oh yes, remember good old Windows ME? LOL what a laughable OS.

[Kyang]

Oh yes, remember good old Windows ME? LOL what a laughable OS.

That didn't take long. The first version of my post mentioned "Aside from ME", but I deleted that. Instead I figured I would wait and see who would bite.

ME came at the very end of the 9x line. ME was still an improvement to the previous 9x Windows. Stability wise it suffers, but in terms of feature set, it was an improvement.

I used Windows 2000 instead, because of NT and better stability. Still, Windows 2000 suffered from a lot of bad press too, mostly around broken promises of security that were fixed up pretty quickly. Again, FUD.

So really, I acknowledge ME had flaws, but I don't agree that it supports the tick-tock myth very well. Taken in context of the rest of the entire Windows history, the myth is still weak, and on the flip side, my assertion of continually improving releases isn't completely refuted either.

[Zocom7]

Alright, First you have some facts wrong. Direct X 11.1 is shipping with Windows 8 not Direct X 12. Direct X 12 has not been announced yet and is mostly a large part of some speculation right now. MS has not even confirmed or hinted towards a DX12.

Now I am stunned on why is that Direct X technology is getting behind.

Also these types of threads are getting old. Are you that paranoid? Do you research some of this stuff before you even post or just pull it out of thin air?

I always research some of the stuff before posting.

[Feloidea]

I always research some of the stuff before posting.

Googling pr0n before going to the forum doesn't count as proper research ...

[Commander_McNash]

I like the fact that they deleted the high heels they had in the first version of their concept.

Crowd sourced OS-tans seem to have stagnated. It took an official OS-tan to establish one for Windows 7.

I hope Windows make an official girl when promoting the OS in Japan

[CNCGeek101]

Now I am stunned on why is that Direct X technology is getting behind.

Not all new versions of Windows need to make a jump in Direct X. We had several versions of Direct X 9 until we sat at 9.0c for the longest time. We then got Direct X 10 and 10.1 under Vista. Windows 7 introduced Direct X 11 and will get a patch to DX 11.1 when Windows 8 arrives.

I always research some of the stuff before posting.

If you had done proper research then you would have noticed Direct X 11.1 articles galore and just Direct X 12 speculation and facts later to be revealed as DX 11.1 in the end.