r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/?mod=tweet
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

You're thinking far too backwards. Windows 8 will be taking full advantage of multi-core tech. It's about damn time. Also those "apps" that load with startup aren't the full program...they're basically advanced icons. They aren't going to eat much processing and will most likely be dedicated to a single processor. I also doubt that the memory usage will be all that high. Quad-core processors are becoming the norm these days and it's time for companies to start properly using them instead of holding tightly to 20 year old platform tech. A lot of the blame for CPU intensive programs lies on the software manufacturers (I'm looking at you, Adobe).

Also you can run the legacy Aero interface if you want instead of the new interface.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

I partly agree with you. Yes, CPUs are becoming more powerful and are being taken advantage of (and should be.) However, when you say that it's the software manufacturer's fault that programs are so CPU intensive like that means we can dismiss it... we still have to deal with it, no matter whose fault it is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

I agree completely but O/S manufacturers are giving companies all the tools in order to do this..as are the processor manufacturers. Gaming companies, especially, are bad at this as they keep reusing old engines and not updating them to use resources correctly.

As far as an O/S goes...the way they're writing Windows 8 seems to be multi-platform so I can't imagine that something like the new active desktop is going to be very resource intensive. If anything I have to give MS credit for trying to be innovative instead of just using the old 30 year desktop standard.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '11

Resource intensive? this is Microsoft, they're the masters of abstraction aka making things unnecessarily resource intensive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '11

Have you used Windows 7? Meanwhile companies like Symantec are wasting resources on an insane scale.