Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Mar 2006 17:16 UTC, submitted by Kap
News has leaked that Microsoft has enabled support for OpenGL to work with the Vista compositing desktop, as of the most recent preview build. Previously Microsoft's plan had been to force OpenGL to be translated to Direct3D, reducing performance by 50% and locking the OpenGL version to 1.4 only.
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2006-01-01
Any concerted effort to make using OpenGL programs less favorable on Vista would simply discourage adoption of Vista by the workstation market. If the desktop effects turn off and on every time they start using their software packages on Vista, thus annoying them, they'll ask themselves why they're upgrading from XP Pro when what they have works well now. People pay more for their professional applications than they do for Windows, and it is those applications and not Windows that provides them their revenue. Pissing off the ISVs that make those applications and the users that rely on them at the same time is just a bad idea, and I never really understood where Microsoft was finding the testicular fortitude to do so in the first place.