Re:Windows 8.1 Preview
by criley2 on Thursday June 27, 2013 @07:00PM
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>Their business / server / tools groups are by far and away the future of the company, as of right now.
Further evidence of this: The Sony PS4 that you point out as being competitive, is built on top of more than one Microsoft technology:
"Sony is building its CPU on what it's calling an extended DirectX 11.1+ feature set, including extra debugging support that is not available on PC platforms. This system will also give developers more direct access to the shader pipeline than they had on the PS3 or through DirectX itself
...
The development environment coders will use is based on Windows 7 and fully integrated with Visual Studio 2010 and 2012, allowing developers to debug PS4 code just like PC code."
Further evidence of this: The Sony PS4 that you point out as being competitive, is built on top of more than one Microsoft technology:
"Sony is building its CPU on what it's calling an extended DirectX 11.1+ feature set, including extra debugging support that is not available on PC platforms. This system will also give developers more direct access to the shader pipeline than they had on the PS3 or through DirectX itself
...
The development environment coders will use is based on Windows 7 and fully integrated with Visual Studio 2010 and 2012, allowing developers to debug PS4 code just like PC code."
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/sony-dives-deep-into-t...