Next Windows To Get Multicore Redesign

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 the NT technology underneath Vista has been able to take advantage of multiple processors since 1993, and can now handle 32 or 64 cores. And since Microsoft completely rewrote the 20-year-old GDI/GDI+ model for Vista, what more can (or should) they parallelize? It will be interesting to see how Microsoft tackles the race conditions and deadlocks that come with pervasively multithreaded software and in the past complicated attempts (like that of BeOS) to utilize multiple CPUs. Do you think it's it a smart move to further complicate an operating system to take advantage of multiple cores, or should Microsoft stick to its knitting while applications take advantage of (possibly) more resources?"

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Re:How did you get modded troll?

[RoverDaddy]

Probably modded troll because most Windows users know that 'kill process' from Task Manager (NT/Win2K/XP) almost always works just fine. Further discussion pointed out that the GP may have been talking about Windows 95/98/ME which indeed had more trouble killing sick processes, hence the GP is now modded insightful. Mod this one -1 "Who Cares".