I saw @ The Inquirer that they report M$ will probably skib DirectX 9.0 in favor of DirectX 9.1. Below is the quote: We can freely say that DirectX 9 will make some big differences in future games programming since it will include some interesting parts that programmers will love to use. Rather unbelievably, Eva Glass' friend tells us that Microsoft will skip DirectX 9.0, expected by us all, and plump for DirectX 9.1 instead. We will see if this rumour turns out to be true. Click on Read More... for a link to more information. Go here for more information.