Windows 7 Sets Direction of Low-Power CPU Market

Posted by kdawson on Saturday May 23, 2009 @11:52AM from the no-less-no-more dept.

Vigile writes "News is circulating about Microsoft setting hardware limits for the Windows 7 Starter Edition rather than sticking to a 3-application limit. With just a few simple specifications, Microsoft has set the tech world spinning — not only is Microsoft deciding that a netbook is now defined as having a 10.2-in. or smaller screen, but by setting a 15-watt limit to CPU thermal dissipation they may have inadvertently set the direction of CPU technology for years to come. If Microsoft sticks to that licensing spec, then AMD, Intel, VIA, and maybe even NVIDIA (who might be building an x86 CPU) will no doubt put a new focus on power efficiency in order to cash in on the lucrative netbook market."

1 of 369 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:lacking info by Helldesk+Hound · 2009-05-23 17:42 · Score: 1, Offtopic

> For example, things like COM, WMI, DirectX, .NET, or
? the new WDF toolkit for driver development in Windows
> Vista. I don't see how you can separate any of this
> from the rest of the OS.
That's very easy to do.
After all, there are at least three operating systems (and I don't mean three iterations of one developer's OS) that don't use at all .net, DirectX, WMI, or WDF - all proprietary Microsoft products and completely irrelevant to other operating systems.