REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 9, 2000 — Microsoft Corp. today announced continued industry support for DirectX® 8.0, the latest version of the Microsoft® multimedia API built into the Windows® operating system ...

Microsoft has announced that DirectX 8.0 is complete and available for download. This is the latest in the software company's yearly enhancements to the DirectX API, which standardizes the way that ...

Okay, went to download DirectX 8.0a from this page:<P>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=27741<P>The file I downloaded says "DX80eng.exe ...

Windows Happy birthday, Windows 10—one of Microsoft's most popular operating systems ever reaches its 10-year milestone, just three months before it gets hoofed off to OS heaven Windows When Microsoft ...

DirectX 8.1 is supposed to have some 320 specific bug fixes in it, as well as giving a modest improvement in performance. I'm not sure if this is a direct quote from M$ or is paraphrased, but that ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2001 — This week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2001, Microsoft Corp. will showcase the Microsoft® DirectX® API, its powerful game development application ...

3D Prophet 9200 SE, Hercules' new entry-level graphics board based on ATI's RADEON 9200 SE chipset, is about to democratize DirectX 8.1 and AGP 8X support for all gamers. 3D Prophet 9200 SE is the ...

If you like keeping current with your DirectX version and happen to dislike Windows 8, you're going to be finding yourself in a bit of a bind. Despite having shipped alongside Windows 8, DirectX 11.1 ...

Microsoft has confirmed that DirectX 11.2 will be exclusive to Windows 8.1 and the Xbox One. With DirectX 11.2 offering some cool new features, and yet no clear technological reason for making it an ...