64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed

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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Stable my rear-end

[OverlordQ]

mIRC randomly freezes (guessing probably some 16 bit code laying around somewhere).

And certain pictures in Firefox causes a crash in the video drivers.

Various 3rd party shareware progs I like dont run (again probably 16-bit code), like say the win32 openssl dlls.

You might as well tell us about IE.

[twitter]

My Windows Server 2003 desktop ... is perfectly stable.

Know anything about 64bit M$, other than Alpha? Tell me what you mean by stable when you talk about a system that has a four minute half life when attached to a network. How would you compare the UI to modern multidesktop environments such as KDE or Gnome? Why on Earth would I want to cripple a nice 64 bit computer with Windoze?

What you say has been said of every Microsoft Windows. The new one is always better than the old one, they say but the quality never changes. Expectations are so low that Steve Balmer can promise "insane" uptimes of 30 days with a straight face.

I've never seen the difference from one Windoze to another. Windows 2000 pro, which is still reputed to be more stable than XP home or pro, never lasted more than 3 days for me. That's despite excellent support by in house staff at both a fortune 500 company and at a computer wholesaler. XP is just as buggy as Windows 3.1 was and does not do a whole lot more.

Free software does everything Microsoft can and does it better.