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Carmack: Nothing exciting about Windows 8
by John Keefer, Aug 03, 2012 6:45am PDTFirst, Valve boss Gabe Newell went on the record as saying Windows 8 is a bit of a catastrophe. Now, id Software's John Carmack says there is nothing he is looking forward to in the new operating system and that he is quite content with Windows 7.
Speaking at QuakeCon 2012, Carmack told the audience during his keynote that there is nothing exciting about Windows 8. "Windows XP did everything we needed for quite awhile," he said, "Hardly anyone at id used Vista." When Windows 7 came out, Carmack added, it was a bit more attractive because it did some things better and faster, so there is no reason for him to consider switching to Windows 8.
Well, there may be one reason. He joked that with Doom 3 BFG coming out for PC soon, he probably should do some testing with it.
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Microsoft may be excited about Windows 8, but id's John Carmack says he is there is nothing he is looking forward to in the new operating system.
Microsoft may be excited about Windows 8, but id's John Carmack says he is there is nothing he is looking forward to in the new operating system. : Shacknews
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The one thing people yearn for is interaction, and while there will always be a market for the twitch shooters and military AAA genre, (no one's going to stop and stare at tesselation in a war zone) there's a great deal more use for DX11 and eventually 12 in a new realm of human-computer interaction. If you could take your hardware setup, and put it all into visual head-ware apparatus, envelop yourself in a world, and people, where you have no concept of any differentiation between the real world and virtual, I believe that's where the advancing APIs are heading to, and that's where they'll be put to good use. So when Carmack says "meh" it's because he's waiting, - for the ability to do something like just this. I think Microsoft and the major GPU vendors can deliver.
It's a waiting-game Valcan_S. Luckily we're right on the cusp of seeing some truly incredible changes to how we play and view games. All we need is a little patience. ;)
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