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Architecture
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Key facts & relationships
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- Developer
- Microsoft
- Operating system
- Microsoft Windows
- Release
- November 30, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-30)
- Service name
- UxSms[note 1]
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Overview
Architecture
- Composites Compositing
- Stacking window manager
- Windows XP
- WDDM Windows Display Driver Model
- Graphics device interface
- DirectX
- Off-screen buffers Off-screen buffer
- GDI Graphics Device Interface
- Bitmaps Bitmap
- Windows Presentation Foundation
- Direct3D
- Shader
- Desktop object Object Manager (Windows)
- User Account Control
- Windows Flip
- Windows 7
- Media Integration Layer
- Pixel Shader
- Retained mode
- Double-buffered Double buffering
- Culling Back-face culling
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows PreInstallation Environment WinPE
- Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform
- Software rendering
- Stereoscopic 3D Stereoscopy
Redirection
- Rasterizes Raster graphics
Hardware requirements
- GPU Graphics processing unit
- Direct3D 10.1
- 10 Level 9 Direct3D Feature levels
- Direct3D 11
- Direct3D 10
- Hardware virtualization
- VirtualBox
- VMware Fusion
- VMware Workstation
- Windows Virtual PC
- Remote Desktop Protocol
Developer experience
- Windows SDK Microsoft Windows SDK
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Desktop Window Manager
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Important terminology
windows dwm window desktop directx gdi used buffer applications rendering system manager uses surface memory graphics vista render hardware video
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop Window Manager | Developer | Microsoft | 1.00 | infobox |
| Desktop Window Manager | Operating system | Microsoft Windows | 1.00 | infobox |
| Desktop Window Manager | Release | November 30, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-30) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Desktop Window Manager | Service name | UxSms[note 1] | 1.00 | infobox |
| Desktop Window Manager | is a | compositing window manager | 0.90 | text |
| transparency | instance of | which allowed for effects | 0.80 | text |
| 3D window switching | instance of | which allowed for effects | 0.80 | text |
| more | instance of | which allowed for effects | 0.80 | text |
| per-pixel transparency | instance of | This is used to implement effects | 0.80 | text |
| culling to improve performance | instance of | The compositing engine uses optimizations | 0.80 | text |
| as well as not redrawing areas that have not changed | instance of | The compositing engine uses optimizations | 0.80 | text |
| 1507 | instance of | Starting up Windows without DWM will not work because the default lock screen requires DWM unlike the fallback lockscreen that appears as a command line interface program when W… | 0.80 | text |
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