Microsoft has refreshed its lineup of DirectX offerings at the start of this week, and the company is by no means shy of focusing the spotlight on the evolution of the graphics technology as Windows 7 is contouring. The software giant is offering fresh Technical Previews of Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXGI 1.1, but also a new TP release of Windows 7/Direct3D 11. The components are available for download as an...

We’ve talked some about performance in this blog and recently many folks have been blogging and writing about the topic as well. We thought it would be a good time to offer some more behind the scenes views on how we have been working on and thinking about performance because it such an interesting topic for the folks reading this blog. Of course I’ve been using some pretty low-powered machines lately...

Finally Microsoft have integrated DirectX 11 in the latest version of Windows 7 build 6956,though their is not much support for the DirectX 11,we could hope that the graphic card manufacturers could come out with some good DirectX 11 graphics card before the release of Windows 7. Here is the screenshot of the DirectX diagnostic tool-