DirectX, every mention
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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:08:23 Ben Gilbert Windows 95, they shipped DirectX, that changed the world, they became a real gaming platform.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- ▶ 3:39 Ben Gilbert It comes back, and of the 32 DirectX blend modes, it supports eight of them, and you have to convince the market to buy it, and you got to convince developers not to use anything but those eight blend modes.
- ▶ 51:58 Ben Gilbert Sort of like to build DirectX.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:52 Ben Gilbert And DirectX made some pretty different design decisions than NVIDIA had made.
- ▶ 1:53:47 Ben Gilbert There was a large team that did DirectX.
- ▶ 1:54:56 Ben Gilbert I think your assessment of Microsoft did basically nothing except make really good strategic decisions is, like, reasonable enough for DirectX, but totally is not fair for Xbox.