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Microsoft opens box on Windows Vista successor
Friday, June 30th, 2006
A successor to the Windows Vista operating system, while still very much in the theoretical stage, 
is expected to better leverage multicore processors, for starters, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday afternoon.
Speaking at The Venture Forum conference, Microsoft’s Bryan Barnett, a program manager for external research programs in the Microsoft Research group, said multicore architectures are of particular interest when weighing what to put in future operating systems at the company.
Taking full advantage of the processing power that those multicore architectures potentially make available requires operating systems and development tools that don’t exist largely today, Barnett said.
Windows currently will run on multicore processors, but is not fully optimized for them, according to Barnett. "It’s not a question of just running on a multicore architecture. It’s a question of what do you do to fully exploit the capabilities there," he said. Digital World Tokyo
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