Support for Intel’s Itanium 2 CPU continues with 64-Bit Windows .NET servers; WindowsXP 64-Bit Edition Ver. 2003 to be available in early 2003. Read the press release at Microsoft.com. In the meantime, Windows 2000 has been given nine months to live, as far as OEMs are concerned, and Microsoft is pressuring the PC companies to stop offering dual install Win2K/XP systems immediately.
Windows Advanced Server 1.2 For Itanium 2 Ships to Manufacturers
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My place of employment is ISO 9002 complient. So what does that mean to me? We currently run all windows 2000 machines, but, if my company brought one XP machine in, it would have to upgrade ALL of the other computers to XP in order to stay complient. Does that mean that on the next round of computer upgrades everyone will have to upgrade to XP?
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I thought Itanium was going to be a goner, but now it seems to have picked up steam. These Windows releases for it are its saving grace.
Keep in mind that Microsoft will also be supporting AMD Opteron (Hammer) also. Very interesting stuff. Will Microsoft offer support for both of these platforms over the long term?
Keep in mind that Microsoft will also be supporting AMD Opteron (Hammer) also. Very interesting stuff. Will Microsoft offer support for both of these platforms over the long term?
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From what could happen, Microsoft may push all its server software to .net Runtime Engine, and simply maintain the core OS on the two platforms, basically the same what SUN is doing with their server software, which is mainly Java based. This ensures that if/when the market changes, Microsoft will be flexible enough to take the reins.
Will Microsoft offer support for both of these platforms over the long term?
What do you mean by the long term? I imagine that these platforms are pretty important. I don’t see how MS could boot support.
Microsoft may push all its server software to .net Runtime Engine, and simply maintain the core OS on the two platforms
Acutally, NT runs against a thing called the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). The HAL is platform dependant, but the rest of the OS is not [for the most part]. This is how MS was able to release NT 4 for the Alpha as well as the PowerPC. Of course, these are little known variants, and support for them was dumped for Win2K. The OS remains portable though.