Thanks. So far I'm developing software to run only on my hardware, 64 bit x86, and only on Windows, Windows 7 Professional or some version of Windows Server. The main purpose is just for my Web site. In time I will write more software to process, some of it could be called statistics, some relevant data essentially independent of the Web site itself.

I can understand that maybe for a server farm on a few million square feet of rack space, and some millions of processors, one way and another they could save significant $ (a) powering the computers and (b) removing the resulting heat from the building. My startup is not there yet. Also I can understand that my AMD FX-8350 processor can use a few more Watts per computation than some recent processors with simpler instruction sets and smaller line widths, but I'm not worrying about that now either.

I am pleased that Microsoft is working hard to get .NET to run on a variety of processor instruction sets and operating systems -- for me it means that Microsoft will continue to support the .NET I am depending on.