Fascinating to read thru these comments.....
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klagermkii - Thursday, September 26, 2013 - link
What the hell, Microsoft? Have you lost so much control of the direction of your platform, that an alternate 3D API like Mantle can even be considered? You brought all the GPU makers in line with DirectX, cementing that as a primary development target and now the situation has deteriorated to this. AMD powering PS4, Xbox One and PCs... give them a common AMD-owned API and THEY become a platform target instead. So much time spent chasing the iPad and Android and all this Metro/Modern nonsense and not defending their desktop foundation.
Five years ago any hope for Steam OS and the idea of Glide 2013 Edition would have sounded insane. Now someone could write games for Mantle that would run faster and could potentially be easily ported over to alternate operating systems like Linux if/when that gets Mantle.
I'm not even a huge fan of Microsoft, but dammit, get up and fight for your standardised platform!
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DanNeely - Thursday, September 26, 2013 - link
I'm not sure what you expect them to do?
MS banning AMD from offering anything beyond D3D in its drivers would be a huge anti-trust mess.