Microsoft and Intel have been collaborating for decades, but for the launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, they say that they have collaborated more closely than ever before. The result is improvements such as the ability to boot the operating system within 11 seconds.
They showed that a vanilla version of Windows 7 can boot in just 11 seconds, particularly if it’s running on a four-core Intel processor that can do eight tasks at the same time, thanks to an Intel technology dubbed hyperthreading.
Microsoft and Intel have startes acting like Wintel on Windows 7 launch
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