[AtlasBarfed]

It really mystifies me that Intel AMD and other hardware companies obviously Nvidia in this case Don't either have a consortium or each have their own in-house Linux distribution with excellent support.

Windows has always been a barrier to hardware feature adoption to Intel. You had to wait 2 to 3 years, sometimes longer, for Windows to get around us providing hardware support.

Any OS optimizations in Windows you had to go through Microsoft. So say you added some instructions custom silicon or whatever to speed up Enterprise databases, provide high-speed networking that needed some special kernel features, etc, there was always Microsoft being in the way.

Not just in the drag the feet communication. Getting the tech people a line problem.

Microsoft will look at every single change. It did as to whether or not it would challenge their Monopoly whether or not it was in their business interest whether or not it kept you as the hardware and a subservient role.

[p_ing]

From the consumer perspective, it seems that MSFT has provided scheduler changes fairly rapidly for CPU changes, like X3D, P/e cores, etc. At least within a couple of months, if not at release.

Amd/Intel work directly with Microsoft for shipping new silicon that would otherwise require it.

[rbanffy]

> From the consumer perspective, it seems that MSFT has provided scheduler changes fairly rapidly

Now they have some competition. This is relatively new, and Satya Nadella reshaped the company because of that.