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Windows Vista requires that the hard disk partition (disk volume) you are installing Vista into is formatted by using the NTFS file system.
I would have loved to use managed code for the UI part, which is what I own. I won't go into the details, but suffice it to say that it wasn't the team's decision.
The DWM operates in an environment where other DirectX applications do operate. Video playback, WPF applications, windowed games (btw, Vista "inbox" games like Solitaire, etc., are now written in DirectX), etc. In fact, the DWM is responsible for the final presentation of those applications. So it's critical that such DirectX applications 'play well together' and play well with the DWM.
As a result of a series of changes that are too numerous to describe here, the OS magnifier is no longer 'WPF-aware', and does bitmap scaling just like it does of other content. Although we do lose this feature, we believe that without the dependencies that enabled Magnifier to work in a WPF-specific way, we can be more agile in what we provide to WPF customers moving forward.
I would have loved to use managed code for the UI part, which is what I own. I won't go into the details, but suffice it to say that it wasn't the team's decision.
The DWM operates in an environment where other DirectX applications do operate. Video playback, WPF applications, windowed games (btw, Vista "inbox" games like Solitaire, etc., are now written in DirectX), etc. In fact, the DWM is responsible for the final presentation of those applications. So it's critical that such DirectX applications 'play well together' and play well with the DWM.
As a result of a series of changes that are too numerous to describe here, the OS magnifier is no longer 'WPF-aware', and does bitmap scaling just like it does of other content. Although we do lose this feature, we believe that without the dependencies that enabled Magnifier to work in a WPF-specific way, we can be more agile in what we provide to WPF customers moving forward.
Windows Vista requires that the hard disk partition (disk volume) you are installing Vista into is formatted by using the NTFS file system.
