If what Charlie's saying here is true, & the gaming community gets their mitts on it long enough to confirm it.... I shudder to think at the backlash that MS is going to take. Actually, I think I'd rather relish in it...

"In any case, in doing this, MS removed the only impediment to backporting DX10 to XP, it is now, and has been for quite a while, completely possible. MS is screwing its customers to force an upgrade and you are a pawn in their revenue generation scheme."