Windows Vista not ready for the future?
It seems to be 
clear already, Windows Vista doesn't bring many new features. Most Vista features are not that new for any other operating systems.
Another proof, that Vista is not really an operatings system of the future is that it only supports about 4 CPU cores. Whilst CPU core numbers keeps increasing Vista doesn't support more than 4 cores. So let's see how much longer Micrsofts Windows can compete in the fast changing PC market. Bringing out a new version every five years won't help much in that case, I guess.
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clear already, Windows Vista doesn't bring many new features. Most Vista features are not that new for any other operating systems.Another proof, that Vista is not really an operatings system of the future is that it only supports about 4 CPU cores. Whilst CPU core numbers keeps increasing Vista doesn't support more than 4 cores. So let's see how much longer Micrsofts Windows can compete in the fast changing PC market. Bringing out a new version every five years won't help much in that case, I guess.
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Philipp Kupferschmied:
The guy from MS did not say that Vista doesn't support more than 4 CPU cores, but that it was "optimized" for up to 4 cores. So I would guess that it will work with 8 cores (or even more), but that the performance won't increase that much as one might expect. But as you can see in the following link, even Windows XP seems to be able to handle 8 cores:
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/desktops/0,1000000968,39284700,00.htm
And as it seems, Mac OS X doesn't perform much better - but we'll have to see if "Leopard" will improve this.
Stefan Horning:
That's true. Problably the system wouldn't mind anyway how much cores you put in the machine, as long the driver supports it. But still the system doesn't make much use of it yet. That's not a big problem so far. But due to the fact, that MS is releasing a new OS only about every five years, it could be a problem in the future though.
Philipp Kupferschmied:
I don't think it's a question of drivers, because detecting CPUs or CPU cores is a relatively "generic" task, not depending on the CPU architecture or stuff like that.
Of course you're right, if, one day, 8 cores are state-of-the-art, but Vista doesn't scale, this could be a problem. However, Microsoft said that there won't be so much time between Vista and its successor as there has been between XP and Vista. And I guess it will take some years until 8 cores are widely-used in desktop systems.