In brief, you are going to get nagged to upgrade. This is a courtesy reminder that you can expect to see a handful of times in 2019," writes Microsoft in a blog post about encouraging transitions to Windows 10 and Office 365. "Beginning next month, if you are a Windows 7 customer, you can expect to see a notification appear on your Windows 7 PC. The above is good news for Windows 7 stalwarts but there is some bad news on another recent Microsoft blog post for users of this aging OS. Microsoft says it is currently working with a few other game developers to port their D3D12 games to Windows 7 and it will be part of these updates, not an API available to other games on your PC. Going forward Windows 7 users won't be able to install a full DX12 runtime on their machines. Microsoft went on to stress that Windows 7 WoW gamers can run the game using DirectX 12 and enjoy a framerate boost, "though the best DirectX 12 performance will always be on Windows 10, since Windows 10 contains a number of OS optimisations designed to make DirectX 12 run even faster." The updated WoW game is now available as game patch 8.1.5 for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. This unblocks developers who want to take full advantage of the latest improvements in D3D12 while still supporting customers on older operating systems." It went on to explain that "we have ported the user mode D3D12 runtime to Windows 7. "At Microsoft, we make every effort to respond to customer feedback, so when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it," wrote the Windows developer on its blog. DX12 is a Windows 10 exclusive but Blizzard asked Microsoft what it could do to improve the gaming experience for Windows 7 users. However, both developers and gamers have been very pleased with the "substantial framerate improvement," from use of DX12 with the game. Blizzard only just added support for Microsoft's latest DirectX API to WoW late last year. News comes via the Microsoft Developer Blog that Blizzard has added support for DirectX 12 (DX12) to the version of World of Warcraft (WoW) available for Windows 7 users.
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