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Announcing Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025: Ushering in a New Era of Storage Performance
DX12 is constantly evolving - ray and path tracing, auto system rendering, work graphs, shader delivery, cooperative vectors... just because the major version number hasn't changed doesn't mean critically important features are not being added & refined. The point of this article is about evolution. As I'm responsible for thousands of endpoints, I laud the idea of an opt-in to the native nvme driver and to have the ability to test it out before real-world deployments. I'd complain loudly if this was suddenly enabled across billions of endpoints worldwide. It needs shakedown time. I've already identified apps that don't work with it enabled. MS has to lay the foundation and let software & hardware vendors to catch up.
Linux OSes break app compatibility every two days, but when they implemented NVMe there were no issues.