Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 2
- Posted: May 05, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- 39,323 Views
- 1 Comment
Download
How do I download the videos?
- To download, right click the file type you would like and pick “Save target as…” or “Save link as…”
Why should I download videos from Channel9?
- It's an easy way to save the videos you like locally.
- You can save the videos in order to watch them offline.
- If all you want is to hear the audio, you can download the MP3!
Which version should I choose?
- If you want to view the video on your PC, Xbox or Media Center, download the High Quality WMV file (this is the highest quality version we have available).
- If you'd like a lower bitrate version, to reduce the download time or cost, then choose the Medium Quality WMV file.
- If you have a Zune, WP7, iPhone, iPad, or iPod device, choose the low or medium MP4 file.
- If you just want to hear the audio of the video, choose the MP3 file.
Right click “Save as…”
- High Quality WMV (PC, Xbox, MCE)
- MP3 (Audio only)
- MP4 (iPod, Zune HD)
- Mid Quality WMV (Lo-band, Mobile)
- WMV (WMV Video)
Windows 7 includes many new updates and improvements to the Graphics stack, including a new set of APIs for 2D graphics and writing text. Among the improvements are a major reduction in memory consumption by the DWM and new more efficient ways to combine
the different available APIs. Join David Blythe, a senior architect in the Desktop and Graphics team, and Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist for a quick tour of Windows 7 Graphics architecture, its different components, and how they affect and improve the
user experience in Windows 7. Discover what’s new in Windows 7 Graphics and how developer can tap into the new APIs.
This is the second of three overview videos and the first in a long series of videos about Windows 7 Graphics.
This is the second of three overview videos and the first in a long series of videos about Windows 7 Graphics.
You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:
· Developer for Windows MSDN page
· E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance
· PDC session recordings:
· Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (PDC)
Comments Closed
Comments have been closed since this content was published more than 30 days ago, but if you'd like to continue the conversation,
please create a new thread in our Forums,
or
Contact Us and let us know.
Follow the Discussion
I'd like to see the look on the faces of the many unsuspecting developers when they get the news about Win7. Good news: we've got a new 2d api to replace GDI that's hardware accelerated and a lot more powerful than both GDI and GDI+ ; bad news: Microsoft wanted to make it part of the DirectX stack, so you have to suffer the ugliness and pain of COM for no obvious reason.
Of course if COM is too much for you, you can always use WPF, but that's a product of devdiv, not the Windows team, so it has a completely separate rendering pipeline that doesn't integrate with D2D. Oh, and because it was designed by architecture astronauts, even the simplest things will consume hundreds of megs of memory. Which isn't a problem on modern machines... until the garbage collector stops the world to work it's way through it all.
Or you can just carry on using GDI, which still works, although we added some stuff to that too.
Remove this comment
Remove this thread
close