Over 10 years ago, I was concerned with the elimination of 2D hardware acceleration in Windows Vista and XP, and made no friends for life with the driver team at (then) ATI in Toronto. The good thing about the two articles that hit like a bomb at the time is that both AMD and NVIDIA started reacting frantically at the time and took remedial action pretty quickly as well. The bad thing is that some things could not be solved as performant as still under Windows XP and the graphic cards with specialized 2D functions until today and still causes criticism.