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Old 31st January, 2007, 01:29 PM
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DirectX co-creator, unhappy with Vista's gift for breaking games

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Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Vista breaking games?
The launch of Windows Vista isn't happy news for all games developers.

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Old 31st January, 2007, 02:17 PM
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I'm pretty sure this is the guy that launched Boot! Magazine as well....long gone or morphed into Maximum PC.
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Bear in mind that many free online games are adware/spyware and Vista is much tighter on what it allows you to run.

We could do without many of these "games".
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Darn, I was hoping for a more complete disaster! ":O}
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