There have been a few articles over the past year saying the adoption rate of Windows 8 has been slower than Vista.
Although Windows 8's 10-month user share is larger than Vista's, it remains far behind Windows 7's at the same point in the latter's roll-out. Ten months after Windows 7's October 2009 launch, the OS had accumulated a 17.3% share of all Windows PCs -- more than double Windows 8's.
Ironically corporate america is where Linux has the strongest foothold. You would not believe some of the MASSIVE entities that run on Linux servers...there are LARGE portions of our government alone that run on them. Individual workstations may be another animal, but the US Govt runs a LOT of Linux, so does the DoD...as well as lots of other large entities.
Indeed, at the keynote, Microsoft's Development Manager for Graphics, Anuj Gosalia, made no mention of Mantle. He stated that "engineers at Microsoft and GPU manufacturers have been working at this for some time," and he added that D3D12 was "designed closely with game developers."
I then talked with Ritche Corpus, AMD's Software Alliances and Developer Relations Director. Corpus told me that AMD shared its work on Mantle with Microsoft "from day one" and that parts of Direct3D 12 are "very similar" to AMD's API. I asked if D3D12's development had begun before Mantle's. Corpus' answer: "Not that we know." Corpus explained that, when AMD was developing Mantle, it received no feedback from game developers that would suggest AMD was wasting its time because a similar project was underway at Microsoft. I recalled that, at AMD's APU13 event in November 2013, EA DICE's Johan Andersson expressed a desire to use Mantle "everywhere and on everything." Those are perhaps not the words I would have used if I had known D3D12 was right around the corner.
Ironically corporate america is where Linux has the strongest foothold. You would not believe some of the MASSIVE entities that run on Linux servers...there are LARGE portions of our government alone that run on them. Individual workstations may be another animal, but the US Govt runs a LOT of Linux, so does the DoD...as well as lots of other large entities.