Why does Microsoft still support single-core processors? Cost and Battery effectiveness

Though Microsoft is the last player to enter the contemporary world of smartphones, it has entered the arena with a bang. Its dedicated operating system for smartphones, called Windows Phone is one of the most efficient and elegant OS in the market yet. However, due to the already dominated=by=Android-and-iOS market, the WP could not attract much attention.

However, one thing still favours the Windows Phone-based handsets and that is the cost effectiveness and long battery life. MS still emphasizes that their operating system utilizes the battery in the best manner possible.

Windows Phone does not support multi-core processors and still sticks to cost effective single core CPUs. The reason, according to Greg Sullivan of Microsoft, is efficient and very optimized operating system.

In the real world, says Sullivan, people listen to music while surfing the Web, and that’s something you can do very efficiently with one core. According to Sullivan, performance rests on how efficiently the operating system can manage tasks. Microsoft doesn’t actually run multiple apps in the background: it suspends and reactivates them when you actually use the apps, a technique that sucks down less battery, but still lets you pick up where you left off in your browser or map.

Although with the evolution of the technology and software development more complex applications are going to start pouring in, and eventually Microsoft will have to move on to the multi-core processors in the smartphones, the need for now, according to the company, is just a hyped-up and complicated software development from the peers.

However, Qualcomm’s and Samsung VPs, and the IHS iSuppli analyst echoed Sullivan’s main sentiment that the way the operating system manages threads of code and processes in general impacts the phone’s overall performance, no matter the number of cores.

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