Yesterday associate reported with the reference to information obtained from Microsoft, that DirectX 11 will be supported only by the operating system Windows vista and by its successors.
New API will ensure not only more realistic graphic in games, but also will help to use video chips for the nonstandard objectives. Obviously, following NVIDIA, AMD and Intel the urgency of video chip resources use for accelerating calculations and work will be realized by Microsoft company .
It is important to note that DirectX 11 will support the multi threaded use of resources, and this allow to increase the productivity of computers on base of multi core processors. In the near future Microsoft will report additional details about this interface.