Since operating systems are typically supported into the life of their successors, an individual still running a single-core processor could continue to run with their current OS. XP is still supported and Vista will likely be supported to a point in the life of its successor. If someone wants to continue running their older, single-core processor, they'll still have options for awhile yet.
Now this is a bit extreme but their does come a point when it's time to upgrade - even if you don't care about the latest and greatest OS and hardware. Just because my 12 year old Dell XPS (Pentium I @ 200 MHz; Win95) is still running does not mean I should expect Microsoft to still support the hardware with their new OS.
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John @ Feb 10th 2008 4:13AM
@ computer.dude.28
Since operating systems are typically supported into the life of their successors, an individual still running a single-core processor could continue to run with their current OS. XP is still supported and Vista will likely be supported to a point in the life of its successor. If someone wants to continue running their older, single-core processor, they'll still have options for awhile yet.
Now this is a bit extreme but their does come a point when it's time to upgrade - even if you don't care about the latest and greatest OS and hardware. Just because my 12 year old Dell XPS (Pentium I @ 200 MHz; Win95) is still running does not mean I should expect Microsoft to still support the hardware with their new OS.