Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Mar 2006 17:16 UTC, submitted by Kap
News has leaked that Microsoft has enabled support for OpenGL to work with the Vista compositing desktop, as of the most recent preview build. Previously Microsoft's plan had been to force OpenGL to be translated to Direct3D, reducing performance by 50% and locking the OpenGL version to 1.4 only.
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I was talking to a 3D programmer who works on some in-house 3D application in the Oil Industry, and he was telling me that while Direct3D is great API for games, it is not as useful for industrial applications software that he works on. For instance there is something like 250 calls in OpenGL, which he uses, but only about a 100 or so are useful to games. I assume that Direct3D has implemented mostly those calls that are useful to games, but has not implemented everything that is useful for his industrial applications.