This is a move in the right direction. GPUs seem to be far more powerfull than CPUs, if aplications are coded properly.
I won't be so surprised if I see more support for GPGPU in DX 12, making it easier for devs to shift some of the cpu load to the gpu if need be.
[citation][nom]Ragnar-Kon[/nom]Yeah Apple and Microsoft (or any other company) are one in the same in my book. Build it, THEN you can patent it. Patents for ideas just doesn't make sense.And by the way, I understand that GPU acceleration can provide great improvements in many programs, but I'm just not seeing GPU-accelerated Window Managers being one of those programs that will benefit.[/citation]
It is completely not like that! By "Build then patent" I believe you mean "Start selling it, then patent it"? Cause that would be really dumb. If you really meant "BUILD", I'm fairly sure they did it but are not going public with it until they have the patent.
Also, I think this need for a GPU means we'll soon be seeing a lot of improvements and new features to window management (and we need them, most people just don't realise it).