"It's more of a problem with Microsoft shortsightedness"
Yeah, as demonstrated by its marginal market share lead. (note sarcasm)
How often has the average user (their target market) been hampered due to not enough cores to run their multi-threaded apps?
"XP and Vista cannot correctly allocate resources/programs to more than 2 cores"
Actually (Speaking from experience, not hearsay) NT bases Operating systems have done this good since NT 3.51, very good since 4.0, and great since XP/2K3. (Everything 2k and prior has can’t correctly differentiate hyper-threaded and physical cores)
Don't blame the OS for poorly written programs.
A Maximumpc magazine article describing the need for Better Multi-Core Programming said it best.
"For decades, hardware engineers designed faster microprocessors while too many software engineers got lazy and hid their sloppy programming behind the blessings of Moore’s law. Now the programmers aren’t getting a free ride any more."
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"It's more of a problem with Microsoft shortsightedness"
Yeah, as demonstrated by its marginal market share lead. (note sarcasm)
How often has the average user (their target market) been hampered due to not enough cores to run their multi-threaded apps?
"XP and Vista cannot correctly allocate resources/programs to more than 2 cores"
Actually (Speaking from experience, not hearsay) NT bases Operating systems have done this good since NT 3.51, very good since 4.0, and great since XP/2K3. (Everything 2k and prior has can’t correctly differentiate hyper-threaded and physical cores)
Don't blame the OS for poorly written programs.
A Maximumpc magazine article describing the need for Better Multi-Core Programming said it best.
"For decades, hardware engineers designed faster microprocessors while too many software engineers got lazy and hid their sloppy programming behind the blessings of Moore’s law. Now the programmers aren’t getting a free ride any more."