Data shows Windows 8 hasn't stimulated PC gaming as anticipated

"Cough...cough.. BULLSHIT.. cough

it was "impossible" the same as M$ claimed no more than 640K was possible in DOS.. but I did it w/o them. I had mine running with 64MB flat memory model on boot many years before anything M$ did even similar.

It's not impossible.. it's morons in marketing artificially limiting options in an attempt to gouge more $.

Oh and I've been in IT for over 35 years now. Unlike winbloze kiddies hanging on M$ to do everything for them."

Really? Your going to claim your some kind of wizkid IT professional because you discovered himem.sys and emm386.exe? If you were half the IT professional you claimed to be, you would know and understand the difference between low-level memory and high-level memory access. There is no way you could have booted a computer with 64MB's of low-access memory... it just wasn't possible. Even UNIX-based systems ran across that limitation, which is what prompted the creation of utility TSR's like himem.sys and emm386.exe... it enabled systems to access the Upper-Memory Block and Extended Memory Registers (himem.sys) as well as Expanded Memory Registers (emm386.exe).

But you, being the IT professional that you are, you know all about that, I'm sure. Where were you in the golden days when computers needed boot disks in order to play certain memory-extensive games like Ultima VII or Aces of the Pacific? You could have made a fortune selling your "technique" that enabled a fresh boot with 64MB's of RAM in a time when your average PC was sporting 4-8MB's of RAM.... 16MB if you were really really high end.

Yikes, that reminded me of the hair pulling days of managing upper memory allocations. No matter how you managed to configure it there was always at least one program that didn't cooperate. Thus making it easier to (as you mentioned) create a boot disk with upper memory configuration differences and quite possibly booting without the normal memory resident programs.

WOW another trip down memory lane, I was flying high when I purchased my first memory upgrade. I believe it was labeled 4MB 72Pin SIMM's which was non-EC if I remember correctly. That give me a grand total of 8MB memory on a 486 SX-50. That was back when Packard Bell was still sold in the states.

Does Microsoft actually believe that most people (families) upgrade their OS every few years..? I go over to people's houses and some still run Windows98, or XP.

Crazy^, I know... & I cringe when I see it, but people just don't buy computers every 2 years, more like every 5 years. And most have ZERO reason for Win8, as most jumped from Win98, WinXP.. to Win7. So for most people to buy Windows8 they will probably have to get a new COmputer, as upgrading does nothing for them... wasted $$.



Secondly, what is killing PC sales, is the price of Monitors. Why buy a $500 computer, when a family size Monitor is $600 ?

Good thing I have a disk with every version of (pre-service pack) Windows 7.

I agree. What good new titles are there? They're all rehashes of the same garbage as far as games go, and they're all very, very expensive.

I was one of the people that upgraded to Win 8, and just as you say here, I migrated my games to the new OS. There was no reason to purchase anything new.

How surprising. How about investing in DirectX. I feel it's great time to revive OpenGL, build OpenCL GPU physics engine and make games that run on Linux ... and Os X ... and every windows in this millenium.