Microsoft Will Not Release DirectX 10 for Windows XP – ATI

[gary4gar]

Microsoft Will Not Release DirectX 10 for Windows XP – ATI.





Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest maker of software, will not release next-generation graphics application programming interface (API) called DirectX 10 for the currently shipping Windows XP (OS), instead, the company will keep the new API strictly for the forthcoming Windows Vista OS, despite earlier assumptions about DirectX 10 for the XP.
During a DirectX 10-related event in London, UK, Richard Huddy, ATI Technologies’ software developers relations chief, said that Microsoft’s Vista will integrate DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 APIs for different types of hardware, but the current Windows XP will not get DirectX 10 support, as suggested some rumours earlier. For end users this means that to get the most advantages of the new-generation graphics processing units (GPUs), the new OS will be required.
Both ATI Technologies and Nvidia Corp. planned to release hardware that supports DirectX 10 capabilities as early as in the second half 2006, however, if there will be no API, which unveils the features of the hardware, the companies may reconsider their plans.
Microsoft Windows Vista is expected to be available in very early 2007.
DirectX 10 API, which is also referred to as Windows Graphics Foundation 2.0, solves numerous performance-related problems, particularly, it shrinks overhead time spent by API and driver on execution. Additionally, ATI says its first DirectX 10 graphics processor – code-named R600 – will have unified shader micro-architecture, which will allow to boost performance even further compared to currently existing micro-architectures and . The performance improvements are conditioned by a special built-in arbiter processor, which will “tailor” rendering of every frame across the 64 unified shader pipelines. Such an approach, according to ATI, allows to utilize all execution engines within the chip, while in traditional architectures – where pixel shaders and vertex shaders are calculated by dedicated units – some of the arithmetic processors may stand idle waiting for others to complete their tasks.
Microsoft Corp., who develops DirectX API collaboratively with companies like ATI and Nvidia, did not comment on the news-story.






Oh my..... Only Vista to have it.... Its unfair....

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[Chirag]

Hell. This can't happen. Now I will have to shift to Vista jst to taste DirectX 10. Unfair.

[aryayush]

Doesn't bother me either. I WILL buy Vista the day it is launched.

[kumarmohit]

Typical of Microsoft, Isnt It people. You get a new toy, you forget the rest of your toys...

[tarey_g]

there is a valid technical reason why dx10 will not be for xp , google for it and u will know .

[deepak.krishnan]

Its pretty unfair on MS's part releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only and not for XP. Most of the users have XP in their homes and Vista needs a hardware upgrade for most of them. So just to taste DX10 every one will have to opt Vista and a hardware upgrade too. Why dont these MS folks realise this fact?

[Vyasram]

They r just hitting themselves. Now atleast the crackers wd be in full flow trying to crack it. I wd get it the first day it is cracked.
They deleted bootvis off their own site as well as it wd decrease startup times in xp to promote vista sales. (So that they can say that vista has the fastest startup time )

[runeet]

u know i get the feeling that microsoft is planning to abandon the xp systems altogether with so many annoncements, denouncing so many things

[alienspiesu]

tis is bad on microsofts path,,, jst for a diect-X 10. we change our OS.. man they need treatment!!

[drvarunmehta]

They didn't do it on purpose!!! Don't you think they would try their best to get DX10 to work in XP? There must be a good reason why DX10 will work only with Vista.
Obviously Microsoft realises that everyone can't shift to Vista just for DX10. They wouldn't piss off their customers for no reason.