Microsoft opens DirectX 12 support for Windows 7 to Developers
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anticupidon
One can only assume.
1 M$ is doing this just to show"openness" to the large public, and to other large companies.
Promoting "openess" lubricate some gears and can open some doors, which in the end translate to bussines on M$ check book.
"Microsoft♥ Linux – we say that a lot, and we mean it! Today we’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel." This could be a very good example
Basically, they give "nothing-DX12" (Windows 7 is EOL to anyway )and can gain so much.
2 M$ backpedaling on gaming and DX12 across all Windows version, as Valve's Proton now packages VKD3D For Direct3D 12 Over Vulkan, giving Linux better leverage in gaming area. Gaming is where Microsoft can loose a lot.
Both my 2 assumptions are wild and just my personal take on this. Not as taken as facts.
Zooke
Some people just try to make everything out to be racist, I suppose blackberries, yellow fever, brown sugar and red herrings are racist too.
ruthan
Better later than never, they still 10x more Windows 7 users than whole Linux stuff, its till i would say at least 2x big as Mac Os. Nice for as retro gamers.
Digilator
May be me, but looks like you answered your own questioning - MS doesn't have to support it for it to continue to function.
Weird, huh?)
As long as it makes sense, some companies may use this.
I may be "dim" when it comes to things like this, but Vulkan makes more sense to me, as it runs on Linux also(certain games can also be ported to mobile easier?).
schmidtbag
That's actually a really good point: if it was that important for companies like Blizzard to get support for W7 for cutting-edge APIs, why didn't they just support Vulkan? It'd have been less work for them when making their Mac ports.
schmidtbag
So... you know slyphnier isn't Chinese? I'm not saying he's right that Denial made a racist comment because of course he didn't, but for someone who says "it's not nice to insult someone" you seem quick to give labels (I'm not sure what a WASSFP is but it doesn't seem complimentary) and make assumptions.
Yxskaft
I agree that it should have been there already 2015, and that's true for DX11.1 and later as well.
I can see the argument that Microsoft realized that allowing DX12 to still work on Win7, although with reduced gains, can give DX12 adoption a boost and still give Win10 the edge for modern gaming. The other obvious argument is as mentioned above, that studios have the option to use Vulkan, and Microsoft might have feared that more upcoming games would use that instead of DX12.
tsunami231
Win 8/8.1 is like Win ME imo that OS verison no one want to talk about let alone MS
NVM I edit the chart and even inf 2019 it about the same, My guess to why does mater what china is? last I heard they want to make there own OS cause they didnt want MS OS or something made in the USA or something like that. not really sure at this point.
Alessio1989
There is a simple sample in the DirectX Sample repository on github, if you really care about Windows 8.1 you can download and build it with Visual Studio and try.
XP-200
https://i.imgur.com/MewLsHh.gif
:p
Icanium
Probably for the same or similar reason the US banned Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei from the US.
vbetts
Moderator
11 was launched with Windows 7.
Astyanax
microsoft has chosen not to have this work on windows 8, which is strange since thats most likely where the 7 users will be going to keep the os as similar as possible.
schmidtbag
I personally think W10 is more similar to W7. Cortana is the only thing that really stands out.
Astyanax
10's start menu is both ugly and literally unuseable on a busy system with lots of stuff installed (where as 8.1 you just need to install one, and it can be the same as 7, vista or xp if you so want)
the settings panel is trash, i'd rather use "Control panel" which is feature complete on 8.x, where as on 10 there are various things you can't even find in the 10 settings panel because they just aren't implemented.
no choice over which updates to install is a no go
Process spam for the sole sake of splitting svchost to one service per process (this is just ram bloat)
exclusive fullscreen almost doesn't exist on 10 now (and disable FSO doesn't always work)
the flat colour themes in 10 are horrible for long term use
Network and Sound properties have 3x as many steps to reach on 10 vs 7/8
And last but most important, Window 8.1 doesn't break your network, sound, sata, video and virtual drivers every 6-12 months just because microsoft wanted to reinstall bejewelled on your pc.
Stormyandcold
In terms of an OS just for running applications, there's really not much difference between Win7 and W10. Any advantage W10 has is artificial. Most of the advantages have come from denying porting them to Win7.
Alessio1989
Kernel, WDDM 2.0 and DXGI updates are a thing. If you ever develop at system programming level you would know what huge improvement have been made since NT 6.1. This is why memory residency under WDDM 1.1 (Windows 7) performs poorer compared to WDDM 2.0 (and that's why they advise to eke out things like MakeResident() under Windows 7).
Astyanax
and we all know how this is rubbish, no benchmark ever finds 10 to have a significant improvement over 7 or 8.
asturur
Improvements do not come in terms of performance always, often not.
Improvement in stability and management can come at performance cost.
Software will be just slower moving forward, because they will be more complex.
spine
Microsoft has always used and now necessarily NEEDS DirectX to be the forefront graphics API in order to secure PC gaming. They've used it with EVERY OS release to try and push the next version and get both consumers and developers locked into the DX ecosystem.
They're aware that if they drive gamers away from Windows, which they increasingly are, they might stand to lose alot more.
They had to give Win10 away free, because it's not even worth that, and they are now effectively openly admitting it.
