Microsoft to charge for DX9

[element]

Man this sucks, read about it here:

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=88033

 

[Czar]

april fools?

 

[4WHLDFT]

If it actually happens I'll move to linux once DX8.x becomes worthless. Not that losing me as a M$ customer would be any great loss to them hehe

 

[crab]

Microsoft will charge for Direct X 9

 

[HappyPuppy]

When the time comes that I need DX9 and if MS is charging for it, I guess I'll have to get a "complimentary" version.

 

[joohang]

hahaha

 

[BD2003]

OMFG will you people stop being so fvcking gullible!

 

[yakko]

Even if this was true like we couldn't find a corporate version.

 

[travler]

lol. had AF all over it. its just like IE. if they started charging for IE instead of making you pay for it in the OS, they would lose a ton of money. If they charged for DX we would see OpenGL make some real progress in no time. Netscape only vanished when IE5.0 with win98 beat em down. Before 5.0 they were very competitive. and before IE it was even profitable.

Hi. this is a spatious house. and it comes with this lawnmower. (unbeknownst to you we will pass the cost of this lawnmower on to you and you have no choice other than to live in another state). If that analogy isnt clear and acurate Im must be dumber than I thought.

 

[Electrode]

Definately an april fools joke. Anyway, it doesn't matter to me since I switched to Linux months ago and haven't looked back since.

 

[LongCoolMother]

april fools is starting to scare me...its not funny anymore *sob sob*

 

[Ameesh]

christ you people are dumb

 

[Freejack2]

<< okay - congratulations.
you were faster than any other forum I visited.
it IS an april gag.

and here it didn't even become a flame war of DX against OpenGL >>

 

[Derango]

Yea, and for future reference, a fourm page is not quite what I would consider a legitimite news source