Just a quick question which I'm having trouble getting a definitive up to date answer on;
Some demos I've been referring to use Direct2D to render onto the same back buffer as Direct3D11, making it relatively simple to render text, draw rectangular panels and so forth.
Will this work with Windows 7, or is this an exclusive Windows 8.x capability? I'd like to be able to use Direct2D to draw GUI elements, but not at the cost of losing everyone who's still on Windows 7.