theinquirer.net is reporting that MS has decided to cut DX11 mandatory support form Windows 7. While this might seems as a big thing I believe this will benefit the industry more than having DX11 locked in Win7 on release. The benefit this an bring is that DX11 should be available for Win Vista, just as DX10 should be available for Win XP. Granted that MS claims XP and DX10 are incompatible, and XP has lived for 2 DX releases already - 8 and 9, so it is time to move on, but it would be a mistake to make DX11 Win7 exclusive. People like to have choice and forcing people to upgrade is not a way to go - especially when u see falling market share and have good products from competition out there.
Another big question is when is it coming out... If 7 comes in 5 years... well nobody wants to wait that long for DX11, while on other hand if it comes next year... well it will be simply to early as the games are not even mature for DX10 yet and forcing everyone to upgrade is not a way to go.
Either way.. whenever a new DX comes it has to be open and not force users to upgrade to new software. It would have been much better incentive for gamers to upgrade to Vista if XP had DX10 support while at the same displaying the DX speed improvements in Vista over XP... then at least someone could say - buy Vista, it is faster than XP!
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