Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing

Re:Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing by partiallypro on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:51PM (#16625642)

In Satya's Microsoft, it's pretty much guaranteed that DirectX is going to go the route of .NET and be largely open and multi-platform. I almost bet within a year, we'll get a Hacker News article with just that announcement...

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Re:Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing by SXX on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:45AM (#16626119)

How exactly this would benefit Microsoft? They thrive on lock-in DX provide and actively use it to move people on Windows 10. It's just like they benefit from overly complicated Office formats.

And needless to say that exactly with Satya Nadella they started Windows S where you can't use any API other than D3D.

They opened dotnet because they wanted to get it on server-side since Windows have very limited exposure on that market. But even today .NET still not multi-platforms in term of UI and for that reason a lot of Windows-specific .NET software wasn't ported. And it's already more than 3 years after release of dotnet core.

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Re:Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing by shmerl on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:12AM (#16626004)

If Satya wanted to do something useful, he could support Vulkan, instead of pushing DirectX.

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