Industry sources have confirmed that Microsoft's DirectX 9 is likely to arrive in October, quite a while later than ATI's R300 Nvidia-buster. A few months ago we thought that Microsoft might manage to get DirectX 9 out of the door in September but the schedule has slipped a full month. This echoes the nasty situation with DirectX 8.1 last year, when ATI shipped beta versions of this version with its first Radeon 8500. The problem last time round was that if you didn't have the guts to get your virtual registry screwdriver out, the only other way to install the newer application program interface (API) was to reinstall Windows.


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