Editing Graphics Device Interface (section)

===Windows 7===
[[Windows 7]] includes GDI hardware acceleration for [[blitting]] operations in the [[Windows Display Driver Model#WDDM 1.1|Windows Display Driver Model v1.1]]. This improves GDI performance and allows DWM to use local video memory for compositing, thereby reducing system [[memory footprint]] and increasing the performance of graphics operations. Most [[Geometric primitive|primitive]] GDI operations are still not hardware-accelerated, unlike [[Direct2D]]. GDI+ continues to rely on software rendering in Windows 7.<ref name="Direct2D_intro">{{cite web |url=https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/thomasolsen/2008/10/29/introducing-the-microsoft-direct2d-api/ |title=Introducing the Microsoft Direct2D API |author=Thomas Olsen |date=October 29, 2008}}</ref>