Star Future Versions of Windows To Be 'Fundamentally Redesigned'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th May 2007 09:55 UTC
Windows Microsoft executive Ty Carlson spoke about the future of Windows recently during a panel discussion at the Future in Review 2007 conference held in San Diego, California. Carlson said that future versions of Windows would have to be 'fundamentally different' in order to take full advantage of future CPUs that will contain many processing cores. "You're going to see in excess of eight, 16, 64 and beyond processors on your client computer," said Carlson, whose job title is director of technical strategy at Microsoft. Windows Vista, he said, was "designed to run on one, two, maybe four processors."
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Duffman
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2005-11-23

I only trust facts, and the fact is that how many people are running windows on a more than 2 CPU hosts ?

Now the questions: Why people do not run windows on more than 2 CPU ?
Because it's more scalable than Unix ?
Because it can handle large amount of memory efficiently ?
Because it runs very well under heavy load ?

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PunchCardGuy Member since:
2006-04-14

Actually, there are a fair number of WIN-based servers running on 4 or 8 cores - I know because I have sold many of them. But beyond that we hit a situation of diminishing returns. WIN does not work all that well on more than 8 cores right now. I do expect that to change, but when I do not know.

Proprietary *NIXs still rule the roost when it comes to very big iron with lots and lots of CPUs/cores. But for the desktop, a WinTel based system with 2 or 4 cores still offers the bast bang for the buck. Everyone should have at least 2 cores on their WinTel desktops if they can afford it, and if one can afford a PC at all these days, they can afford two cores.

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