He gave up Nvidia's software to focus on the DirectX graphics standard that Microsoft was building into millions of PCs.

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One of the challenges of desktop virtualization is translating Microsoft 's DirectX graphics language into the OpenGL standard used by Apple.

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He gave up Nvidia's software to focus on the DirectX graphics standard that Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) was building into millions of PCs.

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Designed for measuring the gaming performance of everything from tablets and notebooks to high-end desktop gaming systems, the next 3DMark for Windows will be the world's first unified graphics benchmark allowing testing of DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 capable hardware through the DirectX 11 API.

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