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Certainly Vista will run on Core-2. What I compressed into shorthand is I have seen AMD working as close with MS over the last few years as MS released a development-vehicle to OEMs dubbed Windows-64. So it is probably fair to assume AMD has optimized its new arch for Vista. Its tapeout was closer to Vista-RTM as Core-2's, as well. The statement wrt performance crown made carefully enough not to say it necessarily will regain it. This depends on how good it goes at AMD and how much time Intel has to make revision changes until Barcelona will be in the market as well. With respect to the latter, a launch scheduled less than one year after tapeout for such a complex design looks ambitious.

Apologies the compressed portrayal has caused an itching at your head you needed to scratch. Hope it's gone away now.

K.