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Longhorn's Windows Graphics Foundation Examined

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the closer-looks dept.

Matt J writes "Dave Salvator at ExtremeTech goes over some of the graphics designs for Longhorn. 'David Blythe of the DirectX development team gave a very interesting talk about the upcoming 3D graphics architecture in Longhorn, the next major revision of Windows. Called Windows Graphics Foundation (WGF), this new architecture will usher in some major changes to how 3D graphics operations get handled by Longhorn. These changes extend well beyond Longhorn's Avalon technology, which will render the Windows Desktop using a GPU's 3D graphics processing power rather than the traditional 2D blitter. WGF will instead define the core 3D operations themselves.'"

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  1. Wow by blackula · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's with the sickening new theme on here?

  2. Cool! by goMac2500 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! This makes me jealous... I wish my Powerbook running OS X could do thi.... Oh.... wait....

  3. From the article... by joseph+schmo · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of the first orders of business is to "fix busted stuff," as Blythe put it. These items include no more blue-screens (hard crashes) caused by the graphics driver, and moving more processing into what's known as user mode.

    They're calling this thing WGF (Windows Graphics Foundation). Perhaps instead of blue GPF's it can generate pretty pink Windows General Faults.

    1. Re:From the article... by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not just pink! 3D as well! Have a GPF that rotates along the three primary axis to the tune of The Blue Danube.

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  4. I'd be happy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...if they would just let me move a window around while the application is loading.

  5. Re:OSX is alead, but that's not all by dont_think_twice · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging by the Ctrl+Alt+Del animations, the smooth color fades in Explorer, the few existing vector graphics, the other random programmer art in the technical previews, Avalon is going to be IMPRESSIVE.

    Wow, that does sound IMPRESSIVE. I can't begin to imagine how much more work I will get done with Ctrl-Alt-Del animations and color fades in explorer.

  6. Uh huh? by Lord+Kano · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...which will render the Windows Desktop using a GPU's 3D graphics processing power...

    Microsoft, finding new ways to waste processing power every day.

    LK

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  7. hahaha by TechnologyX · · Score: 5, Funny

    "One of the first orders of business is to "fix busted stuff," as Blythe put it. These items include no more blue-screens (hard crashes) caused by the graphics driver"

    Yeah, that just pushed Longhorn's release back to around, oh, 2020.

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  8. Re:Windowing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The problem with that is that it has the letters SCO in it, which means lawsuits at some future time.

  9. Can we say... by Warhaven · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...will render the Windows Desktop using a GPU's 3D graphics processing power rather than the traditional 2D blitter.

    Quartz Extreme and Core Video?

    Redmond, start your copiers!
  10. Intel to M.S. (joke) by Maksym · · Score: 2, Funny

    (Intel) Quick do something! People are gonna start to realize they don't need 4 ghz for e-mail!
    (Gates) Don't worry, we have something cooking. >8 )