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Windows XP X64 Goes Gold

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the running-native dept.

Kasracer writes "According to The Inquirer, 'Microsoft has released the final version of Windows XP 64 to manufacturing, meaning that those with machines that have 64-32 bit processors in from AMD and latterly Intel can now see what the extra addressing brings to the party.'"

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  1. If it went gold by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...why are they so afraid of pyrites?

    1. Re:If it went gold by Rosonowski · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, they're still trying to iron out all the bugs.

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    2. Re:If it went gold by Everleet · · Score: 5, Funny

      Steeling it should be easy, just watch out for coppers.

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    3. Re:If it went gold by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Steeling it should be easy, just watch out for coppers.

      That's not what I've been lead to believe, but your statement gives me a silver of hope.

    4. Re:If it went gold by Kevin+Khatchadourian · · Score: 5, Funny

      A waste of a silver tongue but it lead to this you guys need a kick in the brass, that's what I zinc at least.

    5. Re:If it went gold by kclittle · · Score: 5, Funny
      I think you guys are trying to be funny, but I'm not sure -- I have such a tin ear for puns.

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    6. Re:If it went gold by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Funny
      I thought I smelt an attempt at humor. I mean, generally I don't mine this kind of thing, but something more refined than all these digs is what shows your metal, don't you think? You're just giving people the shaft when you alloy yourself with earthy humor of this type. Crystalize your thoughts, you'll just lava the results. Puns are too mercurial to keep you golden; I suggest you forge something more lasting and fold in some edgy commentary, that'll cut a swath through the readership. Dig?

      Thanks, I'll be here all week.

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    7. Re:If it went gold by Atmchicago · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think you just alluminated the world of puns for the rest of /.

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    8. Re:If it went gold by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Funny
      Curses, foiled again!

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    9. Re:If it went gold by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you mangle your English enough with metallic puns, are you in fact actually speaking manganese?

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  2. Historian Publishes! by Spawn+of+CowboyNeal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ganymede's report on the CRAPPIEST 64-bit operating systems in the World

    1: Windows XP X64

    that is all.

  3. 4/1 by Primal_theory · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, is it still april fool's day somewhere?

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  4. And ... by canwaf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bring on the 64 bit Viruses!

  5. Heh by strider44 · · Score: 5, Funny

    we can now say "finally Windows has caught up with Linux".

    Cue the candid laughter everyone.

  6. April Fool ? by zbeeble · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yesterday's stories where more convincing.

  7. It's all fun and games... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Anyone aware of a list of Windows software (perhaps on MS's site) that'll benefit from it?"

    Solitaire.

  8. The scientific discovery of the decade.... by carlmenezes · · Score: 3, Funny

    MS Gold can actually rust

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  9. Gold Plating by turgid · · Score: 3, Funny
    Microsoft was well aware of the old saying, "You can't polish a turd," so not to be defeated, they gold-plated it instead.

    /me ducks.

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  10. Re:Oh good... -- No, you are incorrect by Ada_Rules · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...now I get to have twice as many problems than I have now with XP 32? :)
    This is a common misconception. 64 bit computing does not give you twice as many problems as 32 bit computing. Each time you add a bit you double the problems so in fact you will have 2**32 more problems. The only issue I see is that many of the problems do not really show any increase at 64 bits yet so we will have to wait a while for all of the vendors to port them. I hope this clears things up ;)
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  11. The biggest challenge for Windows... by Illserve · · Score: 4, Funny

    As processor speed, memory and disk space continue to spiral to ever larger values, Microsoft is really going to be put to task in finding ways to make Windows sluggish.

    Their task is made more difficult by advances in compiler design which find an eliminate trivial solutions that simply chew up CPU time by computing huging cosine tables and then overwriting them.

    New innovation may come from recent advances in polling network devices unnecessarily and hanging various threads until a reply is received. In the case of pulling a device off the network that Windows Explorer had browsed in the last 15 weeks, a given thread can hang for minutes, chewing up processor time in loops that scan network traffic.

    The Windows Development team seems optimistic that they can produce the same crippled user interface on new 64 bit architectures that customers have become familiar with, a valuable marketing strategy in teaching consumers to become suspicious of computers with more responsive interfaces.

  12. April Fool's Day Was Yesterday by Pensacola+Tiger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just like Microsoft - one day too late.