Microsoft's Windows Vista is to blame for slowing down the progress -- and, in turn, adoption-- of solid state drives (SSDs), according to Sandisk Chairman and CEO Eli Harari.
"As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid-state disk," Harari said, during SanDisk's second-quarter earnings call on Monday.
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"Unfortunately, [SSD] performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we'll start sampling end of this year, early next year," he added.
The next generation of SSDs will use multilevel cell (MLC) technology, which is generally predicted to lower costs and widen the availability of the SSD -- a drive without any moving parts -- as an alternative to typically less rugged traditional hard drives (HDs).
But MLC SSD drives will also require a sophisticated controller -- and according to Harari, that is entirely Vista's fault.
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