When is the AMD64 based Windows XP due??

[Emma]

I'm getting an Athlon64 3000+ shortly and would love to run the new OS with it.

Any word on its release? Or shall I be cynical and wonder if Intel is 'helping' out with it? It's been a long time coming, I mean, they've had about 2 years now...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Yeah, plenty of words. Search on the subject.

 

[drag]

The true answer is "when it's ready". Just like ID games.

My best guess is that it's going to be out by next fall. That's probably just as reliable as it's going to get, even if you hear something from MS itself.

The way I figure it is that MS can't allow it to fall that far behind the proccessor curve, I mean they didn't take long to port stuff to itanium. But I suppose that's entirely different market. It will make MS look inept if it takes another year to port a OS to another semi-compatable computer platform. If it comes down to it they will end up sacrificing features or abandon full-64bit support and do the win95's half 16bit, half 32bit thing. Then fix the issues later with a service pack.

Would be a good contest though. Guess closest the real official release date (not when they ship) for Windows XP 64 and get a free 3000+ amd proccessor and motherboard. Then do a random drawing if a bunch of people get it right.

 

[spyordie007]

I was under the impression that Windows XP 64 bit also did not have support for the Itanium 2 (only the origional) and that when they "re-release" it they will have support for the Itanium 2 as well as the Athlon 64 and the Opteron. Now I think I remember hearing that they are planning on doing it at around the same time as SP2 but now I'm in boarderline speculation territory.

-Spy

 

[jose]

2006 according to the Register.

Regards,
Jose

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: jose
2006 according to the Register.

Regards,
Jose

Or do you mean that Longhorn was due possibly in 2006? Possibly 2007?


Also sorry, I forget that win2003 != win2000 != winXP.

They have one or two of those suckers running on Itanium. Too me they are pretty much the same OS, so I forget sometimes.

It shouldn't be so hard, but that's MS. They always seem to miss deadlines by a year or 2.

 

[glugglug]

Well, the server edition of AMD64 2003 has been out since April. There's only 2 days left for them to release the Home edition before the name "Windows 2003" for it gets pretty silly. So look for a rushed release in the next 48 hours.

 

[flexy]

My best guess is that it's going to be out by next fall.

"next fall" means "it's ready when your A64 3000+ is already hopelessly outdated and being sold everywhere for $79 or so

 

[Pistolero]

somewhere between april and sept.

 

[NightCrawler]

2009 or before

 

[jose]

Longhorn on about 2006. MS's 64bit os.....

Or you can get a 64bit version of Linux now.......

Regards,
Jose

 

[Smilin]

The AMD/Opteron 64bit version of XP has been available for some time if you have an MSDN subscription. I'm not sure what everyone is expecting but it's not going to be very different at all. It's basically XP with the /PAE switch enabled in boot.ini.

 

[glugglug]

/PAE is an ugly hack that is hell to program around similar to the old DOS XMS/EMS drivers and involves a 30% performance penalty. Not the same thing at all.

 

[jjyiz28]

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=amd64xp&page=1

latest article on it

 

[glugglug]

Well, we're out of 2003 and still no 64-bit Windows 2003 Home.

I guess it is following the same schedule as 32-bit windows did.

Intel releases 80386 (first 32-bit x86): 1983
Microsoft releases 32-bit mass market version of windows: 1995

So 64-bit windows should arrive sometime in 2015.

 

[Washuu]

Get Windows Server 2003 64Bit
- You can easily turn this OS into an OS that will run all your games and applications perfectly

:: I run windows 2003 32bit without issues.

 

[XBoxLPU]

I don't see an AMD64 2003 Server version

 

[stephbu]

Windows 2003 64bit Enterprise and Datacenter editions currently only support Intel Itanium processor architecture.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/datacenter.mspx

 

[Nothinman]

Get Windows Server 2003 64Bit
- You can easily turn this OS into an OS that will run all your games and applications perfectly

As long as you don't mind paying $10,000 for an Itanium system to do it with.

I don't see an AMD64 2003 Server version

And you won't, atleast not yet. The AMD64 version is just a developer workstation edition AFAIK so far.