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wbmw. 2. Optimisation costs much less than the port and validation. 20% of the code is executed 80% of time. Microsoft just has to assign best engineers to those 20%.

Why they need that? In server market it is important to command the top in benchmark lists. Even if he customer will end-up buying the Xeon server instead of Opteron, he must see that his faworite benchmark is running great with Microsoft. Or he will start thinking about Linux, because all Linux-based products will be optimised very soon.