DirectX 11 for Vista SP2 will be released on Tuesday, October 27, 2009


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DirectX 11 for Vista SP2 with the Platform Update will be released on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 via Windows Update:

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New non-security content:

Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (KB971512)

Locale: All Deployment: WSUS and Catalog

Classification: Updates, Non-Security

Target platforms: Windows Server 2008 x86 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Service Pack 2, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Approximate File Size:

Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista update: ~ 4694KB

Windows Server 2008 x64/Windows Vista x64 update: ~ 9743KB

Description:

The Windows Graphics, Imaging, and XPS Library contain the latest advancements in modern graphics technologies for gaming, multimedia, imaging and printing applications. It includes
updates to DirectX
,
DirectCompute
, and XPS Library
.

Platform Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (KB971644)

Locale: All

Deployment: Recommended/Automatic Updates, WSUS, and Windows Platform Update Dynamic Installer

Classification: Feature Packs

Target platforms: Windows Server 2008 x86 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Service Pack 2, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Approximate File Size:

Windows Server 2008 update: ~ 7274KB

Windows Server 2008 x64 update: ~ 13771KB

Windows Vista update: ~ 10310KB

Windows Vista x64 update: ~ 17913KB

Description:

The
Platform Update
for Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista is a collection of runtime libraries that make it easy for developers to target a wider customer base.
.

Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (KB960362)

Locale: All

Deployment: WSUS and Catalog

Classification: Updates, Non-Security

Target platforms: Windows Server 2008 x86 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Service Pack 2, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Approximate File Size:

Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista update: ~ 1933KB

Windows Server 2008 x64/Windows Vista x64 update: ~ 3011KB

Description:

The
Windows Ribbon
and
Animation Manager
Library contains the Windows Ribbon API, a command framework that enables developers to quickly and easily create rich ribbon experiences in their applications, and the Windows Animation Manager API, an animation framework for managing the scheduling and execution of user interface element animations
.

Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (KB971513)

Locale: All

Deployment: WSUS and Catalog

Classification: Updates, Non-Security

Target platforms: Windows Server 2008 x86 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Service Pack 2, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Approximate File Size:

Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista update: ~ 647KB

Windows Server 2008 x64/Windows Vista x64 update: ~ 1017KB

Description:

The
Windows Automation
API library contains the latest version of the Microsoft User Interface Automation (UI Automation) and Microsoft Active Accessibility libraries that are provided in Windows 7.

Update for Windows Vista (KB971514)

Locale: All

Deployment: WSUS and Catalog

Classification: Updates, Non-Security

Target platforms: Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Approximate File Size:

Windows Vista update: ~ 3036KB

Windows Vista x64 update: ~ 4142KB

Description:

Windows Portable Devices (WPD) platform
is a driver technology that supports many different portable devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, and portable media players.

More info here: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=822344

Edited by franzon
thats because vista users are ****ed at getting such a crap O.S, ultimate users must wanna hang themselves, they got so little over the other versions and yet it cost so much more.

Just checked windiws update and it was there, updated now :-)

I use Vista on all but one computer in my house (the other one's xp), I think its fantastic OS, reliable and fast. I've tried 7 on two of my computers and it was dreadful, buggy and slow. Before I get wash of people accusing me of installing 7 on something from the 90's let me say that both the systems I tried it on are less than 18 months old, I did a fresh install, used the most up date drivers available and the specs were way above the those recommended for 7.)

I think Microsoft learned from this mistake.

The DX10 can't work on XP, push DX10 only games for vista, then wonder why the DX10 only games sold poorly.

Then the evidence that hinted DX10 could of worked on XP (Shadowrun DX10 only easily hacked to work on XP under DX9).

Also add in the situation where DX 10.1 fixed a lot of issues, where Nvidia stuck with 10.0 cards for too long (were Ati did 10.1) causing development with games to be more complicated or not support 10.1.

With DX11, supporting partial hardware acceleration w/ dx 10 hardware, back porting to Vista, this really seems like Microsoft is trying to create and solid platform, to the widest amount of pc, vs using the game technology to push a os sales.

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