DirectX 10 Coming to Mac OS X and Linux

DirectX 10 continues to elude Windows XP, which is stuck at DirectX 9 level, but over two years after its introduction with the advent of Windows Vista, the technology is starting to make its way to Linux and Mac OS X. But not courtesy of Microsoft. Instead, Jeremy White, the founder and CEO of CodeWeavers, revealed that DirectX 10 support would come into focus as the company’s CrossOver project moved onward into 2009. CodeWeavers develops and serves solutions designed to permit Linux and Mac OS X users to run Windows games and the Office system.

“We’ve just shipped a lot of those ‘under the hood’ improvements for games out in CrossOver Games 7.2. We’re really pushing Direct X 9 support pretty far along, and getting ready to move on Direct X 10,” White stated. “In the next few months, we’ll be shipping CrossOver Linux 8.0, and CrossOver Mac 8.0. That revision of our flagship product will bring support for IE7, modern QuickBooks versions, Quicken 2009 (at a nice speed), Photoshop CS3, and many many other improvements, particularly around Microsoft Office and specifically Outlook.”

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