[DaiPlusPlus]

> DirectWrite is text API par excellence.

One has to only look at the... storied (to say the least) history of Microsoft's first-party 2D graphics/text APIs to see it took a lot of iteration to get to this point; and it leaves me wondering when the next inflection on the learning curve will be released...

Meanwhile, GDI will somehow still live-on.

[rbanffy]

I bet it can still render .FON files. Even the non-bitmap, plotter-like ones.