Windows 7: Direct X 11.1 not available for Win7, only Win8

Just MS playing every card in their hand to try and force Windows 8 adoption, short of completely destroying Windows 7 and Windows XP. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Exactly. A certain few keep inferring that we're mistaken or behind the times, and that we should embrace Microsoft's screw up as a Godsend. W8's interface belongs on tablets and phones, not on desktops.
If anyone is mistaken or behind the times, it's Microsoft for trying to shove their tablet interface down the throats of desktop users with their "one size fits all" self serving brainstorm.

So in your opinion going from Windows 7 to W8 is like going from riding horses to riding in cars, and moving up to powered ships from sail boats?

In an earlier post you referred to Windows 7 on a "touch enabled device" as a "DOG", you even described it as "HORRENDOUS".
Actually jimbo I think that's a fair assessment, but lets be fair about this;

If "one size fits all" was a "DOG" and "HORRENDOUS" when it meant putting a desktop interface on a tablet,
why is it not equally a "DOG" and "HORRENDOUS" when MS's "one size fits all" now means putting a tablet interface on a desktop??

Why shouldn't they both have an interface suitable for the device?
The mistake was MS's, not ours. We're not choosing horses over cars, we're choosing common sense over "DOGS".

Hi there
I can't really see how W8 is "Only" a tablet interface -- It's very simple not to have to use any metro application at all -- OK you need ONE click to get to the desktop and that's it -- you can easily arrange your applications to be pinned to desktop and taskbar just like Windows 7.

The main difference is instead of clicking an ORB and being presented with a "classical menu" -- which don't let's kid ourselves either - can also be a mile long and have zillions and zillions of entries-- you have to click (or touch) the desktop icon in W8 same nr of keystrokes and some people might actually prefer working that way.

You can easily arrange it that after the initial boot you NEVER have to see the W8 start screen again -- you can pin things like Control panel, and shutdown cmds if you are scared of a right mouse click to power off the machine instead of using the menu to your desktop / task bar ( so at the worst with a little bit of desktop management) only TWO different sets of keys are needed. A lot of standard applications often have one or two keys changed after a release update.

I Hated it at first but if you actually slightly re-order you work it's quite logical and makes a lot of sense.

If you can also remember just three or four key combinations (not to hard for even the most diehard Windows 7 supporter) Windows key + Q gets you straight into search so you can find and run anything not on your desktop or quick launch bar, Windows key + R brings up the Run cmd dialog and also a useful one windows key + comma (,) makes all windows transparent so you can see your desktop

and finally a GOOD one for all you menu diehard fans Windows key + X brings up a little "classic menu" of some very nice quick features such as control panel, system management etc.

The Metro part - single tasking in full screen mode is a disaster - agreed -- I find this even on a mobile phone irritating when say you want to add an attachment to an email / facebook etc -- you virtually have to start again as these devices don't seem to have decent multi-tasking built in to the OS -- but with the power of these phones and tablets people will want this.

But again you don't have to use METRO at all if you don't want to.

A lot of the complaints against W8 are IMO grossly overdone. There are some very valid points that Ms needs to address but for 99.99% of typical home users I can't really see TOO much wrong with W8.

For the last 3 weeks now I've rarely used Windows 7 -- the W8 system just seems so much snappier all ways round and I'm actually running it on a far less powerful machine than the one I have running Windows 7.

I did have a learning curve and it was a pain to organise apps efficiently on desktop and taskbar - but once that was done I'm fine with it.

Enc screen shot of my W8 desktop -- almost identical to what I have in Windows 7 - just missing the ORB of course, and the little popup menu you get when pressing the Windows key + X.


( And another little one for all those "Neat Freeks" who like minimal stuff on your desktop while working). - You can dynamically switch on and off desktop icons - so after you've launced an application say from your desktop just turn off desktop icons. !.

Cheers
jimbo

So now the differences are almost nonexistent, but when it was Windows 7 on your touch devices, the differences were
"HORRENDOUS"! Windows 7 was a "DOG". Those were your descriptions, not mine.

W8 is fine for a mobile device since thats what it was designed for, but not a desktop.
I wouldn't even buy W8 for my wife! LOL
I bought her an IPAD.

When I see a post like this it reminds me of that "I will not eat green eggs and ham" story. Only in this case I did try the "green eggs and ham" on my desktop and didn't like it.

Hi there
you obviously haven't understood or don't want to understand what I've posted

Look at the your quote ".....................]So now the differences are almost nonexistent, but when it was Windows 7 on your touch devices, the differences were
"HORRENDOUS"! Windows 7 was a "DOG". Those were your descriptions, not mine. "

This means that on TOUCH DEVICES Windows 7 was (and still is) a DOG.
For the rest it's fine -- I thought that was so bleedin' obvious from the post that it is self explanatory.

C'mon guy -- do you really think I'd say Windows 7 is horrible if my W8 system runs almost the same as Windows 7. --
Ok the English could be a bit better but the meaning seems to be perfectly clear - W8 can be made to run almost like Windows 7 for people who want to use the "Classic desktop", and I still maintain W8 runs much more slickly on MY hardware (YMMV of course) and for Touch enabled devices it's a huge improvement over Windows 7. Now if you don't like or care about touch that's fine - but the whole point of the post was to say that in general for loads of users the complaints against W8 are grossly overdone.

Finally it's everybody's choice --if you want to use Windows 7 it's still available and will continue to be for years yet, if you want to switch that's a choice too -- and you can still use XP for another year too - although I think sourcing a retail copy would be a bit hard --still available on TechNet though.



Cheers
jimbo

That's what I thought, but after all these years of thinking the fatality rate in a cardboard car must be huge..........I did a little research, I didn't have to look far.......The body was made of Duroplast.

'Duroplast is light, flexible, and strong. It is made of recycled material, cotton waste and phenol resins. Because it can be made in a press similar to shaping steel, it is more suitable for volume car production than fibreglass.'

All hail Wikipedia!

Forget it. Not getting into cardboard cars or planes with plastic wings.

I'm also missing how this relates to the DirectX 11.1 not available to 7 users thread