It has been made clear in recent times that Microsoft's upcoming OS "Windows Vista" will feature a new Desktop Compositing Engine which is said to enhance the visual quality and feel of the desktop quite substantially. In a fresh announcement from NVIDIA, they state that all of their current and future GPUs are compatible with Vista.

Further details in the supporting PR.

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES)-LAS VEGAS, NV-JANUARY 06, 2006-NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced that it is aligning its products with Windows Vista's ongoing development and that most of its graphics processing units (GPUs) already are compatible with the latest test versions of Windows Vista.