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Microsoft Commits to Using Opteron

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the catching-up-to-linux dept.

the_1000th_Monkey writes "According these articles at The Inquirer, Infoworld, and The Register Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 will support AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor. Beta releases can be expected in the middle of this year. Here is MS's official press release."

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  1. it makes sense. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    with Sun now supporting the Opteron, lending more legitimacy, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft jumped on the bandwagon.

    then again, Microsoft could have been holding on to their press release, and Sun could have jumped on the bandwagon, releasing their press release early in order to beat out Microsoft.

    either way, it really should be a simple matter for Microsoft to support this chip. it is backwards compatible, and they have had 64 bit for quite a while, so the heavy work is already done.

  2. Re:Any Doubt? by hackstraw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not that familiar with any MS products, but when I was talking to HP about buying an Itanium, they were saying how HPUX and Linux ran fine on the Itaniums and that they were "waiting for MS to get their act together". To which I assumend that XP did not run well on the Itaniums.

    Why is it that they won't support existing 64bit technologies (Itanium, Alpha's back in the day), but their gung ho for yet another x86 hack?