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Microsoft Drops Windows XP for Itanium

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the calling-it-quits dept.

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."

3 of 422 comments (clear)

  1. Important Lesson for Intel by rainman_bc · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Itanic was an arrogant move on Intel's part - to drop backwards compatibility.

    AMD obviously took the right path here. Viva AMD!

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  2. Re:Not surprising by BlowChunx · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, much the same way you can find Apple's Newton technology in its current offerings...

  3. Let me get this straight... by ajp · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Register, which hates the Itanium with passion and hates Microsoft with glee, writes an article about Microsoft Windows being cut on the Itanium. And then Slashdot, News for Nerds, Stuff that matters, runs the story as...news? or maybe as stuff that matters?

    And there's no comments about Linux on the Itanium. Or links to news about new Itanium chips in the pipeline. Or maybe gratuitous references to benchmarks like TPC-C of which no one has ever hear but will still be regarded as proof or some nebulous unstated point?

    Obligatory snide troll remark to get my negative mod points: Wake me when the black & white Robosapien gets a yellow beak.