Is DirectX included in the standard distribution of Windows XP of various editions?

Question

Windows

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/178644?wa=w...

Beginning with Microsoft Windows 95, DirectX has been integrated into the operating system. Later versions of Windows have included newer versions of the DirectX libraries.

But
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX
says that directx is only enabled in Vista and above.
I can't find an XP image without DirectX.

Answer 1

Windows XP includes DirectX 8.1 which can be upgraded to DirectX 9.0c.
Windows XP SP3 already contains DirectX 9.0c.
DirectX may not be included only in Windows XP Embedded and Windows fundamentals for Legacy PC (can be disabled during installation)

Answer 2

When I put the games on a freshly installed clean XP (not a beast, etc.), they cursed that the d3dx9.dll file was not found. So it is quite possible that there is either no directive at all, or there is a directive of earlier versions

Answer 3

Included, but stale) You still have to update it)