If true, this is a good move by Microsoft. The whole point of this exercise is to be closer to the metal, so why reinvent the wheel.
It's something of a Direct3D tradition to design the API around one hardware vendor's state of the art. Direct3D 9 was pretty much based on what the ATI Radeon 9700 could do. At the time this was a serious inconvenience to NVIDIA who had taken a different tack with the Geforce FX (I think it was -- it's been a while).
It's something of a Direct3D tradition to design the API around one hardware vendor's state of the art. Direct3D 9 was pretty much based on what the ATI Radeon 9700 could do. At the time this was a serious inconvenience to NVIDIA who had taken a different tack with the Geforce FX (I think it was -- it's been a while).