Re: Microsoft to remove OpenGL support

Azdo wrote: 


From Windows Vista. Take a look to www.opengl.org. There is a open thread
for a discussion of the possible actions to take and other impressions.


They're not deliberately "removing" support...they
wouldn't dare annoy all those CAD users.

Microsoft's new desktop makes windows spin and dance
all over the place. Rendering OpenGL in one of these
windows will be tough for them to do.

Then again, a chunk of memory in the video card is
a chunk of memory in the video card. There's no
reason that OpenGL drivers and Direct3D drivers
can't write to the same class of memory chunk if
the drivers are written to allow it. Your OpenGL
framebuffer will actually be a DirectX "surface".


What I most liked is one that said the ARB not to approve Microsoft Vista GL
drivers, so no GL applications could ran at all on Vista, causing
complaints of Maya, Doom3 users... and forcing Microsoft to write fully
compliant GL drivers instead of releasing faulty ones that could cause to
the end user the false feel that OpenGL applications run slower than D3D
ones.


I'm sure they'll take a lot of heat over this
but OpenGL is one of the few open APIs they
need in their OS. Most of the big CAD/animation
programs also have a Linux version because they're
descended from the SGI world....Microsoft can't
afford a mass defection.


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