AND 64bit processors

[mrock2]

does anyone know when microsoft is going to support amd
64bit processors? is it comming in sp2?
mrock2

 

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Contact MS for your answer, from what I have been reading they
will relaese one, but still in beta format, but contact MS for your best

answer

alvin

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The AMD 64bit processors are supposed to support Windows XP 32 bit. The
64bit Windows XP is for the new Itanium processors from Intel.

Y.

 

[Jeremy Hannon]

The AMD 64 Bit Processors support both 32-Bit code (x86) and 64-bit code
(AMD64 aka x86-64) at full speed. The _current_ version of XP 64 bit
only support Intel Itanium Processors (IA64). Microsoft does have a
beta release of XP for AMD64 in beta. Expected release date is almost a
year away, though. It sounds like they are timing it with the release
of SP2.

Athlon 64 is still a very fast processor on current 32 bit code and will
run the 32 bit version of XP just fine. There is very little software
available for 64 bit yet anyway. NVIDIA did just release their AMD64
bit drivers for the beta, however.

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