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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 3288281" data-attributes="member: 34865">See, that'd be a good analogy except......except it isn't.  If Microsoft were still releasing DirectX revisions for Win9x, there'd be plenty of people still using it.  Go to ntcompatible.com and read through the forums there to see the hoops people have jumped through to try and keep legacy apps and games working on XP.  Vista will become preeminent because Microsoft has already stated that DirectX support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP will cease with DX9.0c; to get 10.0 (and to get hardware that is fully enabled), you'll have to run Vista.To keep going on the Windows issue, if every advance had been a good one then explain Windows Millenium Edition.  WinME was unstable, added needless things to the OS and was generally regarded as a mistake by the industry at large.People will upgrade because Microsoft will make them upgrade.  No DirectX for older editions means an end to those OS revisions as hardware manufacturers struggle to keep up with Microsoft's strictures.Oh I don't deny that at all.  However, consider that the fan-base was cut by half when 2nd Edition AD&D was released, and that Gary (prior to his departure) lobbied for a continuance of AD&D:Of course the company was so fundamentally boned shortly thereafter that they could've given away free twenty dollar bills and been in less financial trouble...but I think we're all aware of the post-Gygax, pre-WotC lunacy.</blockquote>

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