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The End Of DirectX As We Know It

Posted by Hemos on from the and-i-feel-fine dept.

socram writes "Speaking with ATI and NVIDIA at ECTS allowed us to confirm that after DX9.0, DirectX Graphics is no more. In name only. Microsoft's next set of core presentation and 3D APIs are now under the umbrella of Windows Graphics Foundation and Avalon. Microsoft will still rely on DirectX in name for the rest of the core components, but the graphics API is now under a new name. Look out for WGF 1.0 compatibility on the back of that next generation graphics card's box. Some WGF 1.0 Info!" Update: 09/06 22:27 GMT by T : David Ross of hexus.net points out that this text comes straight from hexus, and should have been credited as such.

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  1. fp! by tidepool · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    firstpost.

    god is in the details.

  2. fp by jintxo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nah

  3. asdf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    furst post!

  4. 1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my 1st 1st post :D

  5. It's the end of DirectX as we know it.... by BradlyLane · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...and I feel fine

  6. Netcraft confirms it by Jrod5000+at+RPI · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Netcraft confirms: DirectX is dying.

    WOOOHOO!!! Man, I've been dying to say it for years. :)

  7. .Not is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah .Not , IE and windoze are dead. Thank god these carppy stuff is gone

  8. bow down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one welcome our new WGF 1.0 Overlords!

  9. Windows Girl Friend by Krunaldo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WGF = Windows Girl Friend. Does this mean i could get a girl friend if i run windows instead of linux? Is this Microsofts masterplan to make us geek migrate from linux to windows becuse they offer us the one thing we've been wanting since we learned what pr0n was? Geeks! We must prevent Microsoft from taking over the world through WGF! As one previously poster mentioned the open source camp is much better on the naming part, so our superior version of the Girl Friend protcol will have an much cooler/atractive/beutiful name then the MS version. We must start coding our version NOW if we're going to have any chance of opening up how girls actually work!

    --
    God,root what's the difference? I read slashdot, there for I errr... am stupid?
  10. The end of DirectX as we know it... by SlashDread · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and I feel fine..

    "/Dread"