Windows 7 gets GPU acceleration

On the occasion of the Professional Developers Conference this week, Microsoft gives developers a glimpse of Windows 7. The program shows that Windows 7 will use the GPU to accelerate applications.

Of the 155 topics on the PDC, 22 relate to Windows 7, and 2 of them are devoted to the use of the GPU. A session entitled: ‘Windows 7: Unlocking the gpu with direct3d’ will be about direct3d based gpu acceleration of Win32 applications. A session called “Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware,” according to Microsoft, explains how to use DirectX for applications “to unlock the horsepower of graphics hardware.” According to the manufacturer, this session will also discuss how applications can display graphic content on different generations of graphics hardware, across multiple screens and on a remote desktop.

Although little else is known about the content of the sessions, according to TG Daily expects Windows 7 to get GPU acceleration, as will Snow Leopard, the next generation of Apple’s Mac OS X platform.

According to Mary-Jo Foley of Zdnet, in addition to the previously shown multitouch support and ribbon interface, Windows 7 will also have ‘Device Stage’ on board, which should become a central place from which users can easily connect external devices such as printers, cameras, telephones and media players. can approach. Furthermore, the operating system would also include the self-diagnostic tool ‘Action Center’ and a program called Streamon, which serves to manage audio and video on PCs and devices. Windows 7 will also receive improved support for bluetooth, but it is not known whether this will add anything to the improvement that will already be made with Service Pack 2 for Vista.