App Packaging and Deployment

Enables developers to produce, consume, or interact with app packages.

For more information, see App Packaging and Deployment.

Assessment Execution Engine

Enables the management and execution of Windows system assessments. Assessments can help a person understand the state of a system and remedy problems with performance, reliability, or functionality.

For more information, see Assessment Execution Engine.

Compression API

Enables developers to manage versions, service, and extend the Windows MSZIP, XPRESS, XPRESS_HUFF, and LZMS compression algorithms.

For more information, see Compression API.

Data Deduplication

Enables backup applications to implement their own customized backup and restore methods that take advantage of the Data Deduplication feature.

For more information, see Data Deduplication API.

DirectComposition

Enables high-performance bitmap composition with transforms, effects, and animations.

For more information, see DirectComposition.

Direct Manipulation

Enables the user to interact with objects directly.

For more information, see Direct Manipulation.

DirectXMath

Provides an optimal and portable interface for arithmetic and linear algebra operations on single-precision floating-point vectors (2D, 3D, and 4D) or matrices (3×3 and 4×4).

For more information, see DirectXMath

Help API

Enables the retrieval of help content items from help catalogs for use in a custom help solution or viewer.

For more information, see Help API.

Operation Recorder

Enables applications to speed up operations that repeatedly access the same file data.

For more information, see Operation Recorder.

User Access Logging

Provides a common framework for Windows Server roles to report their respective consumption metrics.

For more information, see User Access Logging.

Web Socket Protocol Component API

Enables asynchronous, bi-directional communication channels over HTTP that work across existing network intermediaries.

For more information, see Web Socket Protocol Component API.

Windows Connection Manager

Enables the creation and configuration of connection manager software.

For more information, see Windows Connection Manager.

XAudio2

Provides a signal processing and mixing foundation for games.

For more information, see XAudio2.

XInput

Enables interact with the Xbox 360 Controller when it is connected to a Windows computer.

For more information, see XInput.

Native Wifi

For a list of API additions, see What's New in Native Wifi.

Printing

For a list of API additions, see What's New for Printing.

UI Automation

For a list of API additions, see What's New.

Windows Sockets

For a list of API additions, see What's New for Windows Sockets.