| Subject | English | Chinese Taiwan |
| comp., MS | DirectX Immediate Mode | DirectX 直接模式 (A rendering API in which client calls directly cause rendering of graphics objects to the display) |
| comp., MS | DirectX Media Object | DirectX 媒體物件 (A COM object that processes multimedia data streams from buffers allocated by the client) |
| comp., MS | DirectX Retained Mode | DirectX 保留模式 (A COM-based scene graph API) |