Microsoft has hired away the chief scientist at Cray Supercomputer:
http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-5972043.html
it’s all part of their initiative to create a version of Windows for supercomputer clusters:
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/2100-3513_11-5951855.html
Programming Windows is complicated enough, is the world really ready for a clustered supercomputer version of Windows? I wonder what that blue screen is gonna be like, when thousands of processors crash simultaneously 🙂