I'd suggest reading this article which is full of historical and technical detail and i enjoyed it very much: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/605

I'd suggest reading this article which is full of historical and technical detail and i enjoyed it very much: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-... (The article doesn't touch Vulkan but the state of DirectX vs OpenGL)