[oz42]

I bumped into the CloudWright demo in this thread - http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=28189 and it said I needed the latest version of DirectX so I popped over to Microsoft to see if there was an update for my OS (Win XP x64), sure enough there was an update but it took me a while to see if it was for my version!

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DirectX End-User runtime - March 2008

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 2000; Windows 2000 Advanced Server; Windows 2000 Professional Edition ; Windows 2000 Server; Windows 2000 Service Pack 2; Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows 98; Windows 98 Second Edition; Windows Home Server; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition ; Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Web Edition; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V; Windows Server 2008 Standard; Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V; Windows Small Business Server 2003 ; Windows Vista; Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Business N; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic; Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic N; Windows Vista Home Premium; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Starter; Windows Vista Starter N; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows Web Server 2008; Windows XP; Windows XP 64-bit; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Home Edition N; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional N; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Service Pack 3; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

This is no joke, it's taken direct from the MS website!

Make me glad I swapped to Mac's last year!

[JTB]

Each MS programmer can write his own Windows version!

[Bubbaloo]

I run all of those simultaneously.

[oz42]

...and they have such snappy names.

I mean who wants to use something called 'Leopard' when you can have 'Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)'!

[Jeff Tamagini]

Im rolling back my OS to Windows 3.11

[oz42]

Good idea Jeff, nice and safe!

BTW I've just read an article in Mac Format about Susan Kare the original designer of the Macintosh icons - http://www.kare.com/MakePortfolioPage.cgi?page=2. What I didn't know is that she also designed the icons (and other elements) of Windows 3.0 (and therefore 3.11) - http://www.kare.com/MakePortfolioPage.cgi?page=6

& she did OS/2 Warp!! - http://www.kare.com/MakePortfolioPage.cgi?page=9

So if you've got an OS you're thinking of designing; give her a call!