> As for "Windows ... is still single threaded", I'm not sure what you are talking about. The concept of a thread is part of the OS implementation. On a typica

> As for "Windows ... is still single threaded", I'm not sure what you are talking about. The concept of a thread is part of the OS implementation. On a typical desktop workload, at least the ones users at work put on their machines (i.e. running Windows, Office, a browser, maybe a PDF viewer and sometimes something like AutoCAD for P&ID) it is rare to fully utilize more than one or two CPU cores. In fact, for performance on a typical office PC, the CPU hardly matters any more compared to I/O and (to some degree) RAM (and insufficient RAM again becomes I/O load when the swap-fest starts). When one of our users complains about performance, unless the machine still has a Core2, rather than replacing the CPU, we tend to upgrade RAM and/or replace the hard drive with an SSD.