The DirectX® Team is pleased to announce the release of DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) - Beta 3.
This Beta release contains the full DirectX SDK which features the pre-release of the DirectX 9.0c developer runtime. Areas of concentration in the DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) Beta release are:
HLSL support for Pixel Shader & Vertex Shader 3.0
Effects Framework performance improvements
Pre computed Radiance Transfer improvements
New Sample framework
New & Updated Samples (and removal of some crusty ones)
PIX tool for better debugging of Direct3D applications
Introduction of the Preview Pipeline for easier content creation
As this beta release of the DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004), we hope you will take the opportunity to install it, work with the new features and provide feedback through BetaPlace. We look to you and your feedback to help get the kinks out prior to the next pre-release.
Thanks,
DirectX Team
News source: Beta Place
This Beta release contains the full DirectX SDK which features the pre-release of the DirectX 9.0c developer runtime. Areas of concentration in the DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) Beta release are:
As this beta release of the DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004), we hope you will take the opportunity to install it, work with the new features and provide feedback through BetaPlace. We look to you and your feedback to help get the kinks out prior to the next pre-release.
Thanks,
DirectX Team
News source: Beta Place
UPDATE: On a side note, Microsoft has also updated MS01-052, and MS04-14 yesterday. The details are listed below.
MS01-052
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-052.mspx
Reason for re-release: Bulletin updated to advise of the availability of an update for Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition. This update addresses an additional denial of service vulnerability.
Originally posted: October 18, 2001
Updated: May 11, 2004
Version: 3.0
MS04-014
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-014.mspx
Reason for re-release: Microsoft has released a revised version of the Windows XP security update that contains the correctly localized optional Jet error strings.
Originally posted: April 13, 2004
Updated: May 11, 2004
Version: 2.0
Umm then why does it say "to install it"?
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