How many supported CPU's?

Greetings all!

I'm a bit curious about the number of CPU's vista (thinking ultimate) support and utilize?

Think I read somewhere that it supports two phsysial CPU's, however..

Let's say I got a dual core with two cores (or four cores). Will vista be able to utilize all of them? Haven't been able to find an answer to that.

Quad Core CPU's should kick ass in vista if it used all of them. Does anyone know what i'm babbling about?

Just to clarify..

Vista supports two physical cpu's, but is that the same as 'fully take advantage of'?

Sorta like.. 'I see you have two quad core cpu's which gives you 8, great I'll take advantage of them fully to speed things up'.

Or something like '8 cores, eh? great. I'll support all of them but only utilize X of them, hopefully some new program can use the rest'.

Know what i mean?

Let's say having one core is 100%, and two cores is 200% (although in reality it won't be 200), having a quad core gives 400%, etc.

Two quad cores 'give' 800%, would vista be able to utilize every core in its operations? Starting vista in no-time, etc. Not starting up 8 versions of Word or something

Aha.. Interesting!


Guess it'll be a quad core whenever i upgrade next time.. Perhaps even this year! Thanks guys

Did they change the license structure?

I was going by this:

http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/Windows%20Vista_Home%20Premium_English_d16c019b-fa71-4fc9-a51d-a0621bddb153.pdf

I'm not saying you're wrong - just want to know if the license had been changed for the Home versions.