Submission + - New processors from AMD
Submission + - Next Windows to Be Redesigned for Multicore CPUs
eldavojohn writes: "A Microsoft executive announced that the next Windows will be fundamentally redesigned to handle the numerous cores of present and future processors. The article notes that with Vista, the 20 year old GDI/GDI+ model was completely rewritten. Has Microsoft finally learned not to persist limitations and bad features of operating systems through generations? It will be interesting to see how Microsoft tackles the race conditions and deadlocks that come with pervasively multi threaded software and in the past complicated attempts to utilize multiple CPUs (like BeOS). Do you think it's it a smart move to further complicate an operating system to take advantage of these cores or should Microsoft concentrate on utilizing a single core for Windows while the applications take advantage of (possibly) more resources?"
