So it looks like XP WILL get DX10 - in a way

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35110


DirectX 9.0 L is simply a renamed and refurbished DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will make DirectX 10 games to work on Windows XP.

Or, alternatively you could use the Falling Leaf System (http://www.fallingleafsystems.com/)

Thoughts?
My feeling is that the FLS will do bad things to performance because it's not native software, and undoubtedly Microsoft will make DX 9.L detrimental too in order to push sales of Vista.
Their monopolising of the market is really quite impressive, gotta hand it to them there!

[Taxation]

This story was posted some time ago, and ive been following falling leaf for a while.
To be honest, i will upgrade to vista in the next 6 or so months. Its progression, and to be honest, the majority of games i play worked on vista better than on xp.
It would be great to get dx10 on xp, and if enough people dont buy vista, then it will probably happen.
And also because the guys at nvidia cant make decent drivers for vista :roll:

[wuyanxu]

i don't see any problems with 32bit of Vista...... even using it on my Sempron computer :lol:

but for 64bit Vista, i'll try it out after i've built my new computer