In a July 22 blog post, Joakim Lialias - Intel's Alliance Manager for Microsoft - has elaborated about the ways in which Microsoft and Intel have worked out the optimization of Windows 7 for Intel processor technology, with regard to performance, power management, and graphics.

Talking about how the forthcoming Windows 7 OS would gain from multithreaded and multicore Intel chips for faster application performance, Lialias said that the Microsoft and Intel tie-up has resulted in providing the new operating system with the ability to better identify resources available, along with breaking up application processing over multiple chip cores and threads.

Lialias specified that with the help of a feature called "SMT Parking," Windows 7 would be able to benefit from Intel's hyperthreading technology for "better performance on hyperthreaded, multicore Intel processors."

Commenting on the driver and BIOS-level improvements for the Windows 7 to boot and shutdown faster, Lialias said the "mutual goal" of both Intel and Microsoft was "to provide the most responsive compute experience possible."

Moreover, among the notable enhancements of the Windows 7 OS, besides a better interface, is that it boasts of GPGPU - general-purpose graphics processing unit - technology, which gives the OS the potential to turn a graphics processing unit from Nvidia or AMD into a general-purpose compute engine, for the purpose of accelerating everyday computing tasks, like a CPU!