Microsoft on Friday offered a public preview of Avalon, its all-new graphics and presentation engine for Windows. Avalon was originally a key pillar of Longhorn--the next version of Windows--but the ...

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Microsoft not only initiated Universal Windows Apps, but it also brought the same concept to Drivers as well. It started with Universal Audio Architecture to standardize class driver architecture for ...

Microsoft is streamlining how it measures and maintains graphics driver quality. The company says that separate audience-based measures for a single evaluation criteria is not needed anymore after a ...

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In 1996, as the 3D graphics chip market was in its ascendency, with new companies declaring devices every month, Microsoft shocked the industry by introducing a radically different approach—tiling.

If you see black boxes or any graphics glitches on the Microsoft Edge browser on your Windows 11/10 PC, follow these suggestions: The graphics driver may cause this problem. Although latest graphics ...

Intel is alerting Windows 10 users that it will be providing Modern Windows Drivers for its chips from November 2018. The new Modern Windows Drivers, also called Universal Windows Drivers (UWD), are ...