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techflash.com - 11/14/2008

New court documents reveal internal Microsoft fighting over Vista, Intel - TechFlash: Seattle's ...

— techflash.com — A new court filing reveals disputes at Microsoft's highest levels leading up to Windows Vista's release -- including CEO Steve Ballmer describing former Windows chief Jim Allchin as "apoplectic" over a move to lower the standards for the "Windows ... (more) New court documents reveal internal Microsoft fighting ...

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asrock.com - 11/13/2008

Instant Boot

— asrock.com — Type Date OS Size Download Description A780GXE/128M 10/31/2008 Windows XP Windows XP 64bit Windows Vista Windows Vista 64bit 687.17KB Download from... Instant Boot ver:1.05 11/10/2008 ( How to update ) 832.05KB Download from... 1. Support ASRock ... (more) Instant Boot

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seattlepi.nwsource.com - 11/12/2008

'Vista Capable' lawsuit against Microsoft now a class action

— seattlepi.nwsource.com — In a blow to Microsoft Corp., a federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit late Friday alleging that Microsoft unjustly enriched itself by promoting PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" even when they could only run a bare-bones version of the ... (more) 'Vista Capable' lawsuit against Microsoft now a class action

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DirectX Software Development Kit November 2008 for Windows 7 and Vista SP1
D' Technology Weblog — Included in the November 2008 DirectX SDK is a technical preview of Direct3D 11 and associated components and tools. Direct3D 11 is an update to Direct3D 10.1 enabling new hardware features as well as improving the breadth of configurations supported by Direct3D. As such, Direct3D 11 enables developers to create applications and games that work on Direct3D 10, Direct3D 10.1, and Direct3D 11 hardware when it becomes available. With the addition of WARP and Direct3D 10 Level 9, Direct3D 10.1 and Direct3D 11 have the ability to target fast software rasterization and Direct3D 9 hardware,” Microsoft revealed. Download ...

Microsoft Releases Direct3D 11 Technical Preview for Developers
X-bit labs — Microsoft Corp. has issued DirectX software development kit (SDK) that contains basic technical preview of Direct3D 11. Even though the preview does not expose all the features of DirectX 11, it gives a signal to software developers that Direct3D 11 is around the corner and that they can take advantage of appropriate functionality. The new version of performance investigator (PIX) tool for Windows, which is a part of DirectX SDK, supports basic stream capture and single frame capture for Direct3D 11, however the new Direct3D 11 hardware features like tessellation, compute shader, dynamic shader linkage, and new resource formats, are not supported. In addition, advanced features like shader ...