I’ve been hearing little anecdotes about Win7 for months now, but Ars has one of the better articles I’ve seen so far. Interesting:
Traut runs a team of about 200 software engineers at Microsoft that is responsible for the core kernel scheduling, memory management, boot sequence, and virtualization technology such as Virtual PC and Virtual Server. The latter technologies are becoming more and more important as servers get more powerful and gain more and more CPU cores, and it was clear from the demonstration that Microsoft is placing significant effort into integrating virtual machine technology into everything that they do.
As I’ve written before, I think a focus on (high-scale) multi-core will be a key to the OS’s success going forward. Anyway, check out the video linked from the article.