Microsoft Advice Against Nehalem Xeons Snuffed Out

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 28, 2009 @06:33AM from the keep-that-under-your-hat dept.

Eukariote writes "In an article outlining hidden strife in the processor world, Andreas Stiller has reported the scoop that Microsoft advised against the use of Intel Nehalem Xeon (Core i7/i5) processors under Windows Server 2008 R2, but was pressured by Intel to refrain from publishing this advisory. The issue concerns a bug causing spurious interrupts that locks up the Hypervisor of Server 2008. Though there is a hotfix, it is unattractive as it disables power savings and turbo boost states. (The original German-language version of the article is also available.)"

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Re:Linux works fine by daveime · 2009-11-28 07:49 · Score: 1, Flamebait

and also switches contexts about 5 times as fast as well (and these are full processes, not threads)
Seeing as Linux has about 1/5th of useful software compared to Windows, I guess it all balances out in the end.
And here's me, with a ton of recent Insightfuls and a good backlog of Excellent karma, pissing it all up the wall for one dig at an obvious Linux fanboi ... when will I ever learn ?