Hopefully!
What I really can't understand, is that it's not even available for Windows 8, just for 8.1. No, that's not true... I do understand if I look at it from a marketing point of view. You encourage your customers to change, to update, if they want to use the latest in technology.
It's a shortsighted view, as it alienates the customers who are satisfied with their current product and do not want or are not able to update whenever MS pushes something new on the market. When there is no technical reason to not publish a product for a OS that is still running under full support, some of those customers might care even less for future upgrades to save money. At least that's my solution if MS insists on forcing its near-monopoly on me in ever faster cycles.
DirectX went from
2.0 to 8.0 on Win95 (5 years of DX updates)
5.2 to 9.0b on Win98 (3 years of DX updates)
8.1 to 9.0c on Xp (9 years of DX updates as 9.0c recieved bi-monthly upgrades)
10.0 to 11.0 on Vista (3 years of updates)
11.0 to 11.0 on Win7 (3 years with a single update)
11.1 to 11.1 on Win8 (not a single update - but it only had a years time)
11.2 to ??? on Win8.1
I'm listing 8.1 seperatly as MS is selling it as a new, and expensive product, even though it's just an upgrade. Buying a 8 license and using the free update to 8.1 is actually cheaper then buying 8.1 (at least in europe, where the consumer has access to the OEM and systembuilder licenses)
This shows a pretty clear picture, where this will be heading in the future. You want an update to DX, buy a new system!
Well... extended support for 7 is up till 2020 for all versions. Guess I'll have to stay with DX11 till then.
Edit:
I hope I got the numbers right. Did most of it from memory!
Edited by Egomane, 11 November 2013 - 04:09 PM.
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