IE9 Will Use Direct2D

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Link: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/IE-9-Surfing-on-the-GPU-with-D2D/

In the upcoming IE 9, all graphics and text will be rendered with the GPU thanks to Direct2D (D2D) and DirectWrite. Direct2D is a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2D graphics API (Windows Vista and 7) that provides high performance and high-quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text.

Related link: http://www.geeks3d.com/20090515/direct2d-2d-drawing-apis-in-windows-7/