Excuse me, but no fix for Windows can make a CPU run faster. This fix for Windows might make the operating system (and dependent applications) run faster in computers with a Bulldozer CPU. Saying that a CPU performs better with a new Windows fix is as technically incorrect as saying that the motor performs better after 5 tons of junk was taken out from the car's trunk. The car drives faster, yes, but the motor hasn't changed. In my humble opinion, the article's title should be "Windows 7 hotfix improves performance with AMD Bulldozer".

The article name is correct...CPU performance is dependent on the OS, and since Windows 7 isn't designed for Bulldozer, It obviously WILL have a huge hit on the CPU's performance...so thereby releasing a hotfix or official patch for it, the OS is better able to take advantage of the CPU's architecture and thereby increasing performance for the CPU.

The Patch has been pulled due to it not being the complete patch according to AMD it's supposed to a two part patch and one peice without the other is useless and MS should never have put it up ..... It's due out in Q1 2012

Lol it's not like you buying crappy CPUs affects any of us in a negative way. It just means more Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge chips available for us.

Well it didn't with the Core 2 series, or the Nehalem's, or the Sandy Bridge chips. CPUs aren't really alike to GPUs, they don't need drivers to mature to increase performance substantially, it should just be there.

I take this to mean that you believe Win7 is somewhat retarded.
Hmm Well it is after all a Microsoft product.

Ivy bridge will still eat pile driver for breakfast