During the Gamefest 2008 conference held in Seattle, the company Microsoft officially submitted the following version of a multimedia package DirectX API-11. Like DirectX 10 new technology will work exclusively with Windows Vista and future versions of Windows.

Among the main features of the product is described as an opportunity to expand the functions of graphics processors, and not only limit their handling of textures, patterns and special effects. It also has been improved multithreading, added hardware (create a smooth surface from a variety of polygons). The developers claim that DX11 is fully compatible with DX10. Such as the gap between the ninth and tenth versions there are no more.

It can be assumed that the new DirectX compatible with Windows 7, which largely relies on the touch interface, allowing you to expand opportunities for interaction with the files.