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Re:The Evolution of Direct3D by j_s on Monday July 22, 2013 @10:43AM (#6083942)
The book Renegades of the Empire ( http://amzn.com/0609604163?tag=hn2013-20 [referral]) documents the history of DirectX within Microsoft.

And Wild Tangent is one of the most annoying/useless pre-loaded crapware vendors -- I've never seen their software installed except on a brand new PC.

Re:The Evolution of Direct3D by kevingadd on Monday July 22, 2013 @01:44PM (#6085244)
Honestly between WildTangent and from seeing the sheer hubris and sociopathy on display in most of St. John's interviews (and the fact that he just posts hundreds of private emails on the internet), I don't have a very high opinion of him anymore. It's a shame, these stories are super interesting - the posts about Talisman describe stuff I didn't know even happened. Talking about mocking colleagues during their presentations and actively doing really showy, rude stuff to execs...