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  2. List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products - Wikipedia

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    The instructions for invoking the Easter egg vary depending on the version: [citation needed] 1.xx: Press Alt + ⇧ Shift + Esc + ↵ Enter. 1.01 and later: Hold Alt then Esc, release Alt then Esc, press Esc twice then press ← Backspace. 2.0 and later: Press F1, F5, F9, F4 and ← Backspace in rapid succession.

  3. DirectX - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth.

  4. List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft's all-in-one, subscription-based service for office, communication, and security software [208] Bandit Schedule+ 1.0 Microsoft's first Personal Information Manager [citation needed] Barney Money 1.0 Microsoft's personal finance software (Flintstones theme) [citation needed] Betty Money 2.0 [citation needed] Budapest

  5. DirectX 11 detailed; Vista and DX 10 / 10.1 hardware supported

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    At its GamesFest event in Redmond today, Microsoft shared the first details of DirectX 11 – the numerically superior successor to DirectX 10.1 – which will feature full support for Windows ...

  6. AMD shows off world's first DirectX 11 GPU - Engadget

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    Another DirectX 11 feature, the compute shader, will enable AMD's DirectX 11 graphics cards to help make Windows 7 run faster in a wide number of applications and in a manner that's completely ...

  7. ActiveX - Wikipedia

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    ActiveX is a deprecated software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web. [ 1] Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996. In principle, ActiveX is not dependent on Microsoft ...

  8. Microsoft warns gamers DirectX 11.1 is Windows 8-only - Engadget

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    The company's Daniel Moth (and supporting documentation) states that DirectX 11.1 is exclusive "for all practical purposes" to Windows 8-based platforms, including Windows RT and Windows Server ...

  9. DirectX Graphics Infrastructure - Wikipedia

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    DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI) [1] is a user-mode component of Microsoft Windows (for Windows Vista and above) which provides a mapping between particular graphics APIs such as Direct3D 10.0 and above (known in DXGI parlance as producers) and the graphics kernel, which in turn interfaces with the user-mode Windows Display Driver Model driver.