Vista wreaks havoc on games, report
Bloke reckons
By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 31 January 2007, 10:13
THE CHIEF executive of game publisher WildTangent claims that nine
out of ten computer games will not work with Microsoft's new Vista
operating system.
Alex St. John, told TG Daily that Vista is incompatible with the
mast majority of games on the market. He slammed the Vole for
lacking of consumer and developer understanding.
St. John said that the reengineering of Vista's security left many
developers and their games in the dust. Vista's security needs a
new installation routine but even if that partly works, "it's
almost certain that Vista's digital rights technology will break
existing casual games," he said.
Vole went overboard and a little silly with security and the outfit
is not as knowledgeable about their users. Online gaming is the
third largest application on the Internet and they would have made
sure that this works on Vista, St. John said.
Vista security measures do not help users make the right decisions
and have built a house with eight-foot concrete walls and a screen
door. The users are the screen door, he added. St. John said that
20 of his 90 employees spent about one year to make Wild Tangent's
games compatible with Vista so he will be OK.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/30/vista_games/
Vista sends PC prices sky high
Get your desktop computer for just £9,999
By Tracey Cooper
Published Wednesday 31st January 2007 16:27 GMT
Vista only hit the shelves yesterday, but Microsoft's new operating
system has already sent shockwaves through the PC retail
industry.
Want to get your hands on an Acer desktop bundled with a copy of
"Genuine MS Windows Vista Premium"? Get prepared to fork out a
wallet-thrashing £9,999 for the pleasure, if prices down at PC
World are anything to go by:
With Vista retailing at only £219.99, the addition of the operating
system has pushed prices sky high with the desktop itself ringing
in at a whopping £9779.01.
While PC buyers will be crying into their cheque books on the news,
we're sure there'll be high fives all round at Redmond - which
certainly has succeeded in achieving its 'wow' factor.
