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Windows 7: Microsoft Prepares Hardware Manufacturers for 7

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Nov 2008 14:33 UTC

Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) is in full swing this week, hot on the heels of the recent PDC. The main subject is, of course, Windows 7. This being a conference focused on hardware makers, Microsoft made a whole slew of announcements related to how Windows 7 will deal with hardware.

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New APIs

by siki_miki on Thu 6th Nov 2008 22:14 UTC

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2006-01-17

This is interesting. MS is shipping Direct2D and DirectWrite. Basically it's a vector API on top of Direct3D and a new font API. Sounds similar to Quartz 2D ,Cairo (+fontconfig) - or the Qt equivalent, and OpenVG.

Finally MS decided to give something better than GDI+ to developers which don't use .NET and WPF.

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RE: New APIs

by gregthecanuck on Sat 8th Nov 2008 00:03 in reply to "New APIs"

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2006-05-30

I sat throught the DirectWrite session at the PDC.

Very cool stuff. They demoed the difference between the new and old font handling. Wow!

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