Well finally you can use all modern hardware's features in something else than DirectX. I think it was a shame that all this took so long - imo it's one of the reasons that you nowadays have about zero OpenGL games in contrast to just "a few" a couple of years back and even now everyone is getting ready to introduce the DirectX 11 standard to their hardware...
Well at least I can hope for some fixes in the ATI drivers which I was told were delayed until there are final OpenGL 3.0 specs and maybe I'll see one or two games giving me DirectX10 effects without Vista...

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