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MS are dumping OGL support.

Hobbes · 1999-11-30 21:59:00

www.theregister.co.uk/991129-000007.html Nice quote on it from MS. [This message has been edited by Hobbes (edited 30-11-99).]

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www.theregister.co.uk/991129-000007.html

Nice quote on it from MS.

"Do not let your personal preference for the Quake family of games dominate your understanding of this market. OGL is not strategic for us... as the last three years of history in the multimedia space have shown... SoftImage has about 20,000 seats total. And I just about had them convinced to do a port to D3D before we sold them. Outside of the Quake family of games there are, maybe, two hands-full of apps that use OGL. Somewhere between 5-10 per cent. D3D has overwhelming support in terms of titles, yet we have a serious lack of drivers. D3D drivers are strategic for us."

[This message has been edited by Hobbes (edited 30-11-99).]

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