Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware

unassimilatible writes "As new features of Windows 7 continue to trickle out, ZDNet is now reporting that it will scale to 256 processors. While one has to wonder, like with Vista, how many of the teased features will actually make it into the final OS, I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody." This Mark Russinovich interview has some technical details (Silverlight required).

Comments

eh

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't Bill Gates say that 640 MB's of hard disk was enough for anyone?

Yeah, Microsoft should never say anything is enough.

Re:Twitter troll, mod down

[Anonymous Coward]

So what does N/T mean, anyway? New Topic?

I genuinely would like to know. I've picked up more than a few common memes/acronyms, etc. here.

s/ONE/TWO is something from some coding language, meaning substitute TWO for ONE.

IANAL means I Am Not A Lawyer.

I have no idea what ^H^H^H^H^H^H means when it's jammed into the middle of a word. A programming joke I'm not getting?

Re:No Silverlight here.

[man_of_mr_e]

Actually, Flash is interpreted, .NET isn't (it's JIT compiled). But that's irrelevant since Silverlight is not .NET, it's a subset of .NET that has heavy sandboxing. You can't do, for instance, unsafe native calls in it.