I see your point. Well it would be nice if Microsoft found a way to implement them and coordinate with Intel, with backwards compatibility of course (which is

I see your point. Well it would be nice if Microsoft found a way to implement them and coordinate with Intel, with backwards compatibility of course (which is the key point of Windows). Then this brings another question to my mind: if Intel is so contrained by Microsoft's decisions (which make sense) they should have been in a good relationship designing things that work nice together. Why did they design their CPU in a way that would break in Windows usage in the first place? They must have much more R&D than saying "let's design this hybrid CPU and put a new instruction set on some cores and see if it works on Windows and DRM software else we disable those features" kind of approach.