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64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the more-bitness dept.

sebFlyte writes "64-bit Windows is nearly here, despite Microsoft quietly dropping support (and plans for it) for the Itanium on XP ... Windows XP for x64 RC1 has been tested, seemingly fairly thoroughly, and actually looks like a stable OS."

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  1. Linky? by UncleScrooge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anyone got a download link, I NEED to try this fudger out.

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  2. Re:You might as well tell us about IE. by dedazo · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    LOL! Why are you posting the exact same thing again? Because someone modded you (rightly so) as a troll?

    What did you expect, with that ridiculous demeanor? You attack someone for saying they have no problem using "Windoze" and then you turn around and make an equivalent proclamation about free software being the end-all of computing.

    I doubt you've even ever used Windows after 1996. 2000, XP and 2003 are perfectly stable and secure if you patch them and don't do stupid things with them. No different than Linux or FreeBSD, all of which I run every day.

    I swear I'd enjoy using free software even more if it wasn't for people like you.

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  3. Yeah Right... by BillGatesTheSecond · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Solaris 10 is a f*cking joke in every means possible and MacOS X? well if you want to waste your money on overpriced hardware from Apple only to join the cult of mac, please do so, but your computing experience will not elevate by doing so.

    Contrary to popular mac-taliban opinion, MacOS X is not the holy graal of computing.

    With Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and the coming Longhorn, Microsoft shows the way yet again for all others to follow.

  4. Re:You might as well tell us about IE. by x-caiver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you weren't just trolling you could have done a web search and found plenty of data that shows the stability of Windows does, in fact, increase with every release. You should use terms such as "availability" "uptime" "reliability" "five nines" and "99." to help you find this.

    If you buy junk hardware or have horrible management practices then you aren't going to be able to achieve the high availability numbers. If you buy good hardware, make wise decisions on the application vendors you support, and have solid maintenance & change management procedures in place you could find yourself in the "five nines" club.

    (If I remember correctly: 99.999% uptime means only 5 minutes of downtime a year, and jumping up to 6 nines reduces that to only 20 seconds of downtime per year.)