Post Comment - Blue's News

Morning Tech Bits

[Feb 01, 2013, 09:55 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX? Thanks Verno.
Microsoft Office 2011 14.30. Thanks Ant.

Post Comment
Enter the details of the comment you'd like to post in the boxes below and click the button at the bottom of the form.

Re: Morning Tech Bits

Feb 1, 2013, 12:50

killer_roach

Redmask wrote on Feb 1, 2013, 12:37: netnerd85 wrote on Feb 1, 2013, 10:34: I call BS on that first article. I got it in my email last night. I had signed up for a few of the XNA mailing lists, it's definitely real. As far as I can tell, they're going to mainstream a lot of the underlying XNA and D3D stuff into the Windows/Xbox SDKs. XNA as a development suite, however, seems pretty much dead, which seems baffling considering the fact that they have the muscle needed to make it a usable multiplatform development kit, but that seems to not be their area of interest (tribalism of Microsoft's internal teams at work?).

Subject

Comment [quote="killer_roach"Feb 1, 2013, 12:50][quote="Redmask"Feb 1, 2013, 12:37][quote="netnerd85"Feb 1, 2013, 10:34]I call BS on that first article. [/quote] I got it in my email last night. I had signed up for a few of the XNA mailing lists, it's definitely real. [/quote] As far as I can tell, they're going to mainstream a lot of the underlying XNA and D3D stuff into the Windows/Xbox SDKs. XNA as a development suite, however, seems pretty much dead, which seems baffling considering the fact that they have the muscle needed to make it a usable multiplatform development kit, but that seems to not be their area of interest (tribalism of Microsoft's internal teams at work?). [/quote]

;) :( :o %) :) :| ;P X| :D More

If you have a signature set up, it will be automatically appended to your comment.
If you don't already have a Blue's News user account, you can sign up here.
Forgotten your password? Click here.

Email me when this topic is updated.

Special Codes

b[bold text]b
i[italic text]i
u[underline text]u
-[~~strikethrough text~~]-
c[code text]c
+[bullet point]+
q[quote text (indented)]q
[quote="Author"]quote text (indented)[/quote]
[url=Link]text[/url]
r{red text}r
g{green text}g
b{blue text}b
m{maroon text}m
s{secret text (shows in the background colour)}s

Forum Rules

Disagree all you want but attacks of a personal nature will not be tolerated.
Ethnic slurs and homophobic language will not be tolerated.
Do not post spam, links to warez sites, or instructions on how to obtain pirated software.
Abusing the forums in any manner that could be construed as 'griefing' will not be tolerated.