Microsoft has announced that DirectX 8.0 is complete and available for download. This is the latest in the software company's yearly enhancements to the DirectX API, which standardizes the way that ...

Microsoft's latest operating system behemoth copped noticeable criticism across various issues leading up to its release, with notable industry luminaries chiming in their opposition to the software's ...

Microsoft has confirmed that DirectX 11.2 will be exclusive to Windows 8.1 and the Xbox One. With DirectX 11.2 offering some cool new features, and yet no clear technological reason for making it an ...

Microsoft has detailed all of the changes made with DirectX 11.1, and even though there aren't too many worth writing about, there's one new feature that is: native support for stereoscopic 3D. Gone ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. And so the inevitable march of Windows moves onward: DirectX, the software that Windows computers rely on to make games run, is getting an upgrade—but ...

If you're on the fence about upgrading to Windows 8 and its formerly-known-as-Metro tablet-style user interface, Microsoft may have just made the decision a little easier. The company has announced ...

DirectX 11.1 is exclusive to the divisive Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft has confirmed. Microsoft's Daniel Moth wrote on the Microsoft Answers forum that DirectX 11.1 is part of Windows 8, as ...