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LOS ANGELES — In an effort to keep pace with multicore processors, Microsoft is just a few months away from completing a plan to revamp how it handles multithreading in future server operating systems. The work entails a significant redesign of some of the operating system kernel as well as getting support from third parties that design software drivers and applications.

At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here Wednesday (May 16), Microsoft detailed many of its plans for Windows Server 2008 set to ship later this year. But the new multithreading work is not likely to find its way into a release of Windows at least until a follow-on scheduled for 2009.

Nevertheless, chip designers say they absolutely need support for more threads in software to keep their multicore architectures busy.

This should enable Microsoft to make Windows see the benefits more from the new multi core processors, at the same time though we need to get the application guys geared up and thinking along the same lines, whether its the guys developing my in-house derivatives calculation engine or my Grid software, ensuring that they are coded correctly is important in getting the maximum benefit of the platform and the underlying porcessor technology.

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