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Henry Markov

I understand that XPe has the same capabilities as XP Pro which means there
is no user control in assigning processes or threads to CPU cores. However
I have read that Vista has much better support for multi-core scheduling.
Since FP2008 is intended in part to bring some Vista features into XPe, will
FP2008 provide any designer control of how processes and threads are
assigned to cores?

HM
 
Henry,

I will leave the answer to Microsoft folks.
Just wanted to post my comments.

The Vista feature you are referring to (btw, I love the feature), where you have some controls over how the schedule assigned
processors per application threads, has lots of dependencies on the new Vista kernel. In fact, the whole scheduler is in kernel.
I can't image back porting of the entire kernel to XP(e). Not to mention that wouldn't be a good business case for Microsoft to get
the same kernel on XP as they have on Vista :-)

From the list of features included in FP2008 (and you can download FP2008 betas from connect.microsoft.com and play with it by
yourself) there is no kernel related enhancements.

And last but not least. Typically on XPe you see feature back ported from XP Pro, not from Vista (too much work if from the latter).
The FP2008 features, all of them except some bug fixing in EEFs, were pushed to XP Pro clients already.
 
Henry,

KM is correct, FP2008 only brings the Vista-level features to XPe that have
already been backported to XP Pro (IE7, WMP11, RDP 6.0, UMDF, and .NET 3.0).
You can read a full description of what is included in FP2008 on the Connect
site: http://connect.microsoft.com/windowsxpembedded.

~Shayna Begun
Customer Programs PM
Microsoft
 
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