Windows XP X64 Goes Gold

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.'"

Comments

Oh good...

[Seraphnote]

...now I get to have twice as many problems than I have now with XP 32? :)

Think they improved the wait to display "My Computer" while it has a connection to a remote share, that is either slow or unreachable?

With XP, 512MB ram, and Pentium 4, I get to wait a good minute or two, just to SEE, let alone access, the drives that are still ON or CONNECTED to the machine.

Of course this is the DEFAULT settings, I've not taken the time to research how to "reconfigure" or "tweak" it.

You think they would have optimized such an ancient and basic behavior, OUT OF THE BOX!

Oh wait, it must be one of those "innovative" things...

Re:Is it worth upgrading?

[turgid]

You'd be better installing Ubuntu or even Solaris 10 if you believe in such things.

Win64 just means one thing...

[Anonymous Coward]

Bigger, better, faster, harder... crashes.

64 bits?

[Game Genie]

now see what the extra addressing brings to the party

64-bit eror codes on the BSOD!

Re:64 bits?

[Game Genie]

I realize it is much more stable now than it once was, but it still has some serious stability and memory management issue, even if they don't result in BSOD's. I suppose I am a little more critical of Windows than other OSes because even if Windows isn't all bad, Microsoft certainly is.

Re:Well...

[A beautiful mind]

Well... (Score:-1, Troll)>
by ImaLamer (260199)

Well, this tells me you should get a new username. Or s/ImaLamer/ImaTroll/