Microsoft says it heard the wishes of its customers and decided to port the user mode Direct3D12 (D3D12) runtime to Windows 7. The announcement was made in a blog post revealing that Blizzard has brought those enhancements to its World of Warcraft title starting today with update 8.1.5, after enabling DirectX 12 capabilities in Windows 10 in July last year. Today, however, Microsoft has toned down the differences between Windows 10 and 7 by porting over parts of DirectX 12 to the older OS, despite the fact that it's set to stop being supported in less than a year. The new version offers significant performance improvements thanks to better support for things such as multi-threading. One of the bigger advantages that Windows 10 boasted over its predecessors, especially for gaming, is that it's the only version of Windows to support the new DirectX 12 runtime.
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