Microsoft Drops Windows XP for Itanium

MBCook writes "According to an article on The Register, Microsoft has canceled the version of Windows XP for Intel's Itanium processor. They will continue to sell Windows Server 2003 for the Itanium in the high-end server market, but 'For the mainstream server and workstation markets, however, we believe we can best serve our customers needs with Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition, and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, respectively.' So much for Itainum workstations running Windows, but then again the article notes that no major vendors actually sell Itanium workstations anymore."

Comments

It was so unnatural

[elh_inny]

They've had it coming. Truth be told we're stuck with x86 the same way we're stuck with IPv4.
With Internet we at least have some reason to upgrade, however with x86 which is obsolete and has manydrawback, well it still works and we're still seeing some nice performance improvements. I think we might have to depart from x86 pretty soon as the clockspeeds can't be raised anymore. So now its either SMP or simply a different architecture, like G5 for instance.

Re:dear slashdot

[aero2600-5]

It's amazing, but doesn't surprise me at the same time. Is that possible?

Aero