A behind-the-scenes look at Windows 7 changes

If you're still not convinced about the advantages afforded by the newly released Windows 7 OS, then you might want to read a new TechNewsWorld article on the enhancements that the development team made in the kernel.  In a nutshell, technologies that were in place for 20 years have been swapped out, and tweaks made to improve performance on multi-core systems with larger amount of memory.

What I found interesting was that much of the performance improvements came about by addressing gross inefficiencies in scheduling and thread management.  This was apparently especially pronounced on larger systems running databases; resulting in some applications running "15 times faster on Windows Server 2008 R2" than in earlier systems.  And the best thing is that no modifications or recompilation was required to existing applications to enjoy the speed boosts.

For more on this story:

- check out this article at TechNewsWorld

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