AMD will be ready for the 2009 launch of DirectX 11.

Awesome. Hopefully this won't disappoint (much)

There's not even 50 games in the market that support DX10, now they're releasing DX11?? Doesn't make sense to me.

well with the new windows coming, then it'll be vista and windows 9 that will support dx11

dx11 will probably be what developers will program for. dx10 was a major change from how previous dx versions worked.

DX10 is also a bit flawed in how it processes some of the more advanced pixel shader operations, that's why it tends to favor ATI cards over nVidia. That's also why ATI cards can't enable AA while running DX10 (ATI uses shaders to process AA, nVidia uses the ROPs). And this isn't the first time this has happened. Show me the number of games for DX4 or 5. It seems to go from 3 to 6 in a couple of months. And finally, don't forget that previous versions of DirectX will still be supported, so those 50 games you have with DX10 will still run on a DX11 machine.

It's called Windows 7 not Windows 9 as far as I know . Perhaps the new API will actually be useful , unlike DX10 ... because games , that DO support DX10 ... they could do the same quality graphics under DX9 , AND make it run better ( i.e. Very High under DX9 hack on Crysis looks as good as VH under DX10 , but runs better ) .
Anyway , I guess we'll have to wait and see . I also recall some speculation about 2000 stream processors on the new ATi cards ... that would be a 2.5x increase , much like the RV670>RV770 .

DirectX 10 is a massive change. Thats why cards had to switch to unified shader architectures instead of fixed pipelines. DirectX 10 is also very useful as it allows the same actions to be done more efficiently and more advanced actions to be taken whatsoever. Typically the advanced options will more than outweigh the benefits of it's efficiency; resulting in a net loss of frames per second.

where is my golden age when DX is not hardware compatible but software....

best. picture. ever.

Advanced options my ass - tell me , how big of a difference is there between DX9 Enthusiast and DX10 Enthusiast in Crysis Warhead , or between DX9 Very high and DX10 Very high in Crysis ? Or in any other game ?
DX10 is a MASSIVE flop ... technologically , it is advanced and may be more thoroughly used in the future ( I really do hope so ), BUT it's pretty useless as of now .

DX10 does not include anything that was not possible with DX9, that's one of the myths around it. What DX10 does is make it easier on the coders to create those effects at the (severe) cost of GPU horsepower. When people begin to understand DX10 they will see why DX11 was such a necessity so soon.

Although at this time I'm not sure why...