Let's see, so far Microsoft failed to provide decent support for any technology that is currently in use (DirectX 9 and OpenGL). Hey, probably we all need to throw our old games and programs in trash (as well as graphic cards, computers) and buy brand new "Microsoft certified Vista products" for extra $$$. Nice move Microsoft, you are reinventing the wheel again, and we are suckers that will pay for that and fill your pockets once again.

Or will we? With game consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360 and all of Nintendo's offerings I think this will make more and more people switch. In the long run I see the PC gaming business taking one on the nose.

Actually, since the PS3 and Xbox 360 use DirectX 9; which is obviously gonna be a lot slower and crapper than DX 10 because of all the backwards compatability junk stuffed in there, I think PC games are gonna start to become much more popular.
Anyway when you start to playing DX 10 games your not gonna wanna play the rubbish you think is great today. Its about time for microsoft to make a step forward.

At this rate, Vista is going to be a flop. All it is XP with some pretty pictures and Mac coppied features. DX9 is nothing compared to Quartz 2D, and with Apple almost finished Quartz 2D Extreme, DX10 doesn't stand a chance. Does DX10 even support hardware rendering? (quartz 2D extreme does!)Also the fact that 60% of Vista has to be re-written. I read an article a few years ago about Tiger vs Longhorn. It said that they were due to come out at the same time. Tiger has been out for ages, and VIsta is still ages off! At this rate, Leopard will make it before Vista!
Do the right thing - switch to Mac!

Im sorry but I dont think you have any Idea what your talking about. Quartz 2D? thats 2D, DX10 is 3D. so how is quartz better? hardware rendering? have you been living under a rock? DX6 supported hardware rendering..

and switch to mac? what Macs suck horribly for gaming, just shutup and do sum research before you open your mouth

Why do you need to buy new products? If you want to use your old ones, set up a multiboot with Windows XP. That way you can run all your old games and software as well, and at the moment XP supports all the same hardware so doing a multiboot would be easy - unless you have an old computer with a tiny hard drive, at which point your computer probably isn't powerful enough to run Vista at any decent speed anyway.

If anyone reading this doesn't know how to multiboot, you just split your hard drive into two partitions and install XP on one, and Vista on the other. Each version of Windows needs seperate installations of each program that you need on both versions (such as Microsoft Office and your anti-virus program) but games you only need to install once, so it will probably end up using around 10-15GB extra on your computer (this is nothing on newer computers). Easy.

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I think its great that microsoft has decided to redesign the the entire thing from scratch.. no more messy hacks and NULL's everywhere.

here is user made site on directx 10, check it out. http://www.dxten.com, there is a list of hardware supported, and tutorials, etc.

google.com

well ever since i bought a notebook for myself, so i did not have to share with all the other people in my house... it is nothing but trouble. It is also running on windows vista. And oke i don't understand everything i must confess, but my notebook returned for the 5th time from the factory. And is still not working well, now i have to install a program such as DirectX 10 but i'm way to scared that my notebook will fail again. So anyone... is this program compatible with windows vista and a simple intel celeron M inside?

I know that evolution must always take place since the hardware always improves so must the software...thus the OS also...the only thing I find very annoying is if a game would be not up to par and with several bugs in it...everyone would shun it...but with Windows and DirectX we always must live with the flaws from birth to crawl...once again I shall wait till Vista and DirectX 10 are compatible with most of what is out there before changing...yes Microsoft you shall in the end have my money...but only when I see the improvements in your product!