--- title: Direct2D quickstart for Windows 8 description: Summarizes the steps required to draw with Direct2D for Windows 8 and provides example code.

An alpha build of Firefox 3.7 - the next-next gen browser from the Mozilla Foundation - includes support for Direct2D on Windows 7 and Vista, offloading rendering on to the GPU.

Last month IE9 was announced with Direct2D/3D acceleration. It seems that, Web Browsing will be forever changed once GPU is incorporated into the task and Firefox does not want to be left behind.

Mozilla has proclaimed that the race is on to beat Microsoft to the post in its efforts to insert Direct2D support into the next version of its Internet Explorer browser. Over the weekend, Mozilla ...

At this rate it would seem Mozilla will have Direct2D implemented in Firefox — if not in Firefox 3.7 coming mid-2010, then in Firefox 4 coming later the same year — quite possibly, much before ...