As we discussed in Part 2 of our Windows Vista Journal, Vista's Games Explorer consolidates installed games and offers features like parental control. ![]() Windows Vista will be Microsoft's warmest embrace of gaming yet. A couple of OSs and a decade after Microsoft's first attempt to call one of its operating systems a "gaming platform," the dynamic may finally be about to change. ![]() Though Microsoft first gave gaming a nod when it began hyping the release of Windows 95 and a collection of APIs dubbed DirectX, PC gaming has never approached the simple and cohesive experience possible on a dedicated gaming console. Until pretty recently, PC gaming was very much an exercise in harnessing the power of hardware and an operating system designed for general productivity and applying it to a hobby far less business oriented.
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