Windows Longhorn to make graphics card important

“ MAJORITY OF USERS don’t care about a graphics card because this majority uses only 2D operations, or should I say they need it just to draw and show picture on displays.

Some will use the graphics card to accelerate video files or help decode DVD content. but that’s about it. The big mass or users don’t care about 3D games or any kind of shaders. This is about to change with Longhorn.

Longhorn will feature a graphics subset called WGF (Windows Graphic Foundation). Its goal is to unify 2D and 3D graphics operation in one and will bring 2D Windows drawing and 3D operations together. Nowadays, 3D is done using a Direct X subset with the current version 9.0c.”