For anyone who doesn't know, the new Windows Vista(formerly known as Longhorn) is not playing nice with OpenGL.
Check
http://www.opengl.org/ ...
Basicly it will come down to this:
- If you want to use OpenGL + Aeroglass(= something which will make windows look pretty), OpenGL will be layered through DirectX. You only get OpenGL 1.4(no fancy new stuff) and it will be much slower.
- If you want to use OpenGL like you do now, aeroglass will be disabled.
Because of this, OpenGL looks less interesting on Windows and companies might want to switch to DirectX instead. This means that these apps only can run on Windows and not on other OS's like MacOS, linux etc.
Fortunaly there are already lots of OpenGL apps/games and thus the above thing might not happen if lots of people/companies start to complain
