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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.
- ▶ 2:08:49 David Rosenthal DirectX was so important in that late nineties era for PC gaming, you know, Quake, Counter-Strike, everything that happened, Half-Life later.
- ▶ 2:09:11 David Rosenthal PC hardware without something like DirectX and hardware acceleration.
- ▶ 2:19:06 David Rosenthal So I think the vision for this was kind of like, hey, we're going to take DirectX and bake it into the operating system and allow the operating system to use GPU hardware acceleration.