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Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News VMware's View demonstration featured graphics acceleration using Microsoft's DirectX 3D graphics and full-motion video - albeit with some jerkiness. The era in which virtualisation directly affects ordinary people, not... [04 Sep 2009]
Vista Performance Brief: Optimizing Graphics Performance
White Paper Written on top of DirectX instead of GDI (as in previous versions of Windows did) Vista can provide a 3D-like desktop. To deliver its powerful and appealing new desktop, Vista utilizes a completely new display driver... [01 Sep 2009]
Microsoft DirectX gets fix in Patch Tuesday
News Microsoft said on Thursday it will issue six security updates on Patch Tuesday next week, including a critical one that will fix two outstanding holes in DirectX that have been targeted in attacks. In May, Microsoft... [10 Jul 2009]
Windows Video ActiveX Control at risk from flaw
News The company has yet to provide a security update for a vulnerability announced in May that involves the way DirectX handles QuickTime files. Microsoft on Monday warned of a vulnerability in its Video ActiveX Control that... [07 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday unleashes record number of updates
News The updates did not include a fix for a vulnerability in Microsoft's DirectX streaming media technology in Windows disclosed late last month that could allow someone to take complete control of a computer using a... [10 Jun 2009]
Windows, IE, Word, Office, and Excel all getting patched
News Missing from the list of patches is one disclosed by Microsoft in its DirectX streaming media technology in Windows last week that could allow someone to take complete control of a computer using a maliciously crafted... [05 Jun 2009]
Microsoft plugs Windows, Word and Excel holes
News It affects DirectX 8 and DirectX 9. Microsoft on Tuesday closed security holes in Excel, Windows and Word that had been exploited in the wild, as well as other holes for which exploit code or details... [15 Apr 2009]
MSDN Webcast: An Introduction to the SpaceWar Starter Kit Game and the XNA Framework (Level 200)
White Paper The Microsoft XNA Framework, a set of managed code development libraries, contains much of the functionality found in Microsoft Managed DirectX and makes game development easier than ever using Microsoft Visual C# 2005... [31 Dec 2008]
DirectX 10.1: Enabling Breakthrough Graphics on the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
White Paper Microsoft DirectX 10.1 is the latest application programming interface from Microsoft that unlocks the state of the art in GPU technology, represented by the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series. Key features of... [15 Feb 2008]
DirectX 10, What Is All the Fuss?
White Paper DirectX is something the average gamer doesn't give much thought. DirectX 10 is a bigger deal. The purpose of this paper is to give the reader an overview of what to expect from DirectX... [19 Apr 2007]
NASA's World Wind Puts the Planet at the Fingertips of Internet Users Anywhere
White Paper Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, and Microsoft DirectX, World Wind enables anyone with a PC and a broadband Internet connection to take a virtual tour of the earth, seeing three-dimensional... [31 Mar 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Windows Vista
Cheat Sheet Microsoft says the minimum requirements to run Vista are an 800MHz processor, 512MB of memory and a graphics card that can run DirectX 9 graphics. What's the lowdown then? Windows Vista is Microsoft's long-awaited,... [28 Nov 2006]
Microsoft issues Vista 'shopping list'
News To be Vista-capable, a machine needs at least an 800MHz processor, 512MB of memory and a graphics card that can run DirectX 9 graphics. After months of providing only basic guidance about the kind of PC hardware needed... [18 May 2006]
Analysis: Microsoft's OS update
Comment Current discrete DirectX 9.0 video cards should be able to handle Aero without a problem. While Windows Vista is Microsoft's DirectX 10 vehicle, the 3D Desktop Windows Manager requires only... [22 Mar 2006]
Media Player patches get into playback trouble
News The other two updates that could cause media player trouble are: "Update Rollup 2" for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and a fix intended to enable DirectX Video Acceleration of Windows Media Video content. [09 Mar 2006]
