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If you follow technology news you should have got surprised reading the article title because there is no official DirectX 11 for Windows XP or Vista as of now, Microsoft DirectX 11 (6.01.7000.0000) will be made available on Windows 7 and Windows Vista when officially released in coming months, but virus creators have hoped onto the opportunity and started taking advantage of gamers curiosity to install the latest version of DirectX by posting fake trojan infected DirectX 11 links on blogs and forums, these so called DirectX 11 For Windows XP and Vista installer contained Trojans created in perl scripts which got detected by only three lesser known anti-virus scanners on VirusTotal out of total 39.

After news about Need For Speed : World Online being available for free, here is another good news for you, popular game title Quake is now available online as a free ad-supported browser based game, Developed by ID Software Quake Live will work with Firefox and IE on Windows for now with support for Mac and Linux planned in future, Quake Live will feature full 3D graphics having over 25 maps and 4 game modes during the BETA.

To play, users are required to get registered and install a small add-on, the online version of the popular franchise is pulling huge crowd attracting over 110,000 player accounts in first 6 hours of launch, due to heavy demand a queue system is now in-place to let everyone enjoy the game.

No matter how hard digital content developers try to make their protection algorithms unbreakable, crackers always tend to get one step ahead breaking it, the newest example would be the highly waited crack for GTA IV PC, after a series of fake and non-working cracks and activation hacks, crack from LOBO is being reported to work fine, although having some serious bugs causing crashes during cut-scenes, which can be avoided by simply bypassing the scenes.

We have written about unofficial Alky's DirectX 10 For XP, with no further development Alky's project is almost dead, but a new project for porting DirectX 10 on Windows XP seems to be getting momentum with frequent updates and good user-base support, developed by Russian software developer KM-Software the group is providing constant updates to the DirectX port for Windows XP ironing out bugs and glitches with every release, the port lets users play DirectX 10 only games and take advantage of latest improvements in DirectX 10 increasing the speed and quality of games and graphic applications on their Windows XP computer.

The developer also provides another handy utility named "KM-Software DirectX Changer" allowing users to switch between DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 without restarting the computer, the option to change DirectX version makes it possible to use DirectX 9 with older games and DirectX10 for newer games on Windows XP providing greater compatibility as required, the utility can also be used on Windows Vista and Windows 7 to switch off DirectX 10 and use older games on these new operating systems.