Microsoft unveils the final/product name for "Windows 7"

And how is that funny or insightful?

 

I imagine any copy of Win7 out in the wild is also running in debug mode, thus making any performance criticisms entirely irrelevant.

 

Much like the Vista released before RC status. And that dailytech article is absolutely stunning in it's absurdity...

 

WARP10 is a fully conformant multithreaded DX10 software rasterizer that will ship in Windows 7.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd285359.aspx

Performance on an 8-way i7 isn't great, but is orders of magnitude faster than refrast. And it even runs Crysis (slowly).

Who wants to bet that this is a practice run for a future Larrabee software rasterizer or something like it?

 

Well, even if it is not uber-great for gaming, maybe it will be able to decently run Windows 7's Aero without GPU assistance.

 

that would be an effective way to heat up your room a bit. but folding is more useful.
very interesting piece of software mind you but the very best CPU is equal to the very worst IGP.

 

i7 isn't optimized for GPU work, it's conceivable that Larabee will be much better.

I am thinking WARP10 is just a practice run for when they have to build it for real on Larabee.

 

microsoft are releasing new windows versions pretty fast thesedays.