Windows XP 64bit 1218 is ready to download at Microsoft

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Jason Cothran said:
If I get a chance, I will report back before I head to work. I just
finished
preparing my partitions for install and will be rebooting and installing
directly after posting this ;).
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I guess I'll get to find out soon enough. I have it downloading right now.
Assuming the DSL doesn't crap out I'll be burning it when it's done and
installing it late tomorrow night. I'm assuming I'll just have to kill my
old Win64 Partition and install everything over again fresh? At least that's
my plan for now. Let me know how your install goes if you have a chance :-)
I'm so glad that MS finally finished SP2 and has started working on their
other Opertating System Projects again... I'm just itching to have WinXP 64
go gold.

Carlo
 
I guess I'll get to find out soon enough. I have it downloading right now.
Assuming the DSL doesn't crap out I'll be burning it when it's done and
installing it late tomorrow night. I'm assuming I'll just have to kill my
old Win64 Partition and install everything over again fresh? At least that's
my plan for now. Let me know how your install goes if you have a chance :-)
I'm so glad that MS finally finished SP2 and has started working on their
other Opertating System Projects again... I'm just itching to have WinXP 64
go gold.

Carlo
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I booted from the 1218 disk, did a repair install over 1069 and was able to
keep my old configuration. It worked perfectly.

Steve Midgley
 
Steve Midgley said:
I booted from the 1218 disk, did a repair install over 1069 and was able to
keep my old configuration. It worked perfectly.

Steve Midgley
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and how is it different ?
do they have network working now on it?
I coundnt get my network running when I tried the last version of win64,
regards malcolm
 
and how is it different ?
do they have network working now on it?
I coundnt get my network running when I tried the last version of win64,
regards malcolm
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For starters, it looks much more like a finished operating system. The
log-on and log-off are like XP, themes are enabled, sytem restore is
available, the parallel port works but my printer still isn't supported and
a lot of other little things. There is a firewall similar to the one in XP
SP2.

I wish I could tell you that your networking is going to work but that I do
not know. I do know that my Linksys wireless adapter still isn't going to
work but my onboard nVidia always has worked. What network card or onboard
network device do you have?

Steve Midgley
 
malcolm said:
and how is it different ?
do they have network working now on it?
I coundnt get my network running when I tried the last version of win64,
regards malcolm
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The reason why networking wasn't working on your install it's because there
aren't 64bit drivers for your card yet.

I was using the previous release and I could neither use my onboard Intel
Gigabit, nor the capture feature of my graphics card. I couldn't also install
Visual Studio.NET 2003.

For the networking, I installed a D-Link 538 (Realtek 8139 chip) and it worked
perfectly. But that was the only thing I could get around.
 
How does it compare to the 32 bit version of XP (running on the same 64 bit
architecture that is) i.e. how does xp64-on-654/939 compare to
xp32-on-754/939? Is it faster in any respect?

cheers
quasar
 
| How does it compare to the 32 bit version of XP (running on the same 64
bit
| architecture that is) i.e. how does xp64-on-654/939 compare to
| xp32-on-754/939? Is it faster in any respect?
|

For now, yes. It is considerably faster. A lot of that has to do with how
"raw" it is though. Once they add all there bloatware in there, it will
likely slow down some, but the early releases look promising. On the flip
side, it is already considerably faster "feeling", and that's without good
drver optimization. From that viewpoint, it also stands to get better even
as they add the "bloatware" into it. I have a good feeling about things to
come in the future. They won't catch Linux on 64-bit any time soon, but at
least they are putting forth an effort to put out a product even if it is
way overdue.
 
[email protected] said:
| How does it compare to the 32 bit version of XP (running on the same
64 bit
| architecture that is) i.e. how does xp64-on-654/939 compare to
| xp32-on-754/939? Is it faster in any respect?
|

For now, yes. It is considerably faster. A lot of that has to do with
how "raw" it is though. Once they add all there bloatware in there, it
will likely slow down some, but the early releases look promising. On
the flip side, it is already considerably faster "feeling", and that's
without good drver optimization. From that viewpoint, it also stands to
get better even as they add the "bloatware" into it. I have a good
feeling about things to come in the future. They won't catch Linux on
64-bit any time soon, but at least they are putting forth an effort to
put out a product even if it is way overdue.
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That's an very interesting answer. AAMOI, do 32bit programs run OK, eg
Microsoft Office?

I ask because I've just built an A8V 3500+ system but gone for the XP Pro
32 bit, although I've got the original 64bit beta. I'm just wondering if
with the latest beta, its worth changing over. There seem to be quite a
lot of 64 bit drivers about now.

Thanks.

John

Please remove "NO-SPAM" if sending email.
 
Jason said:
For now, yes. It is considerably faster. A lot of that has to do with
how "raw" it is though. Once they add all there bloatware in there,
it will likely slow down some, but the early releases look promising.
On the flip side, it is already considerably faster "feeling", and
that's without good drver optimization. From that viewpoint, it also
stands to get better even as they add the "bloatware" into it. I have
a good feeling about things to come in the future. They won't catch
Linux on 64-bit any time soon, but at least they are putting forth an
effort to put out a product even if it is way overdue.
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I guess you have been away from Windows for awhile. There is a program out
that will let you remove many of the xtras that you misname "bloatware"
Heck, most versions of Linux come on 3 or more CD's nowdays. Windows still
comes on 1 cd. So, who has the more xtras? :o)
 
For now, yes. It is considerably faster. A lot of that has to do with how
"raw" it is though. Once they add all there bloatware in there, it will
likely slow down some, but the early releases look promising. On the flip
side, it is already considerably faster "feeling", and that's without good
drver optimization. From that viewpoint, it also stands to get better even
as they add the "bloatware" into it. I have a good feeling about things to
come in the future. They won't catch Linux on 64-bit any time soon, but at
least they are putting forth an effort to put out a product even if it is
way overdue.
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Thanks for the response. Much appreciated! I am definitely excited about
getting into some 939 H/W. I am just trying to evaluate the time of best
entry. I will step with caution, with no rush, as I know I will soon have my
new 64bit neon glitter magic machine.
 
Steve Midgley said:
I booted from the 1218 disk, did a repair install over 1069 and was able
to
keep my old configuration. It worked perfectly.

Steve Midgley
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Excellent, I'm glad to hear I don't have to lose the few programs I
installed etc... Unfortunetly my DSL descided to take a dive late last night
and I was due into work early, but hopefully I'll get it installed yet. I'm
really hopeing that with the new public beta MS maybe getting ready to gear
up for some RC's...

Carlo
 
| Jason Cothran wrote:
| > | >> How does it compare to the 32 bit version of XP (running on the same
| >> 64 bit architecture that is) i.e. how does xp64-on-654/939 compare to
| >> xp32-on-754/939? Is it faster in any respect?
| >>
| >
| > For now, yes. It is considerably faster. A lot of that has to do with
| > how "raw" it is though. Once they add all there bloatware in there,
| > it will likely slow down some, but the early releases look promising.
| > On the flip side, it is already considerably faster "feeling", and
| > that's without good drver optimization. From that viewpoint, it also
| > stands to get better even as they add the "bloatware" into it. I have
| > a good feeling about things to come in the future. They won't catch
| > Linux on 64-bit any time soon, but at least they are putting forth an
| > effort to put out a product even if it is way overdue.
|
| I guess you have been away from Windows for awhile. There is a program out
| that will let you remove many of the xtras that you misname "bloatware"
| Heck, most versions of Linux come on 3 or more CD's nowdays. Windows still
| comes on 1 cd. So, who has the more xtras? :o)
|


Sorry if I riled you, but Windows is my primary OS. I didn't mean to piss
off any fanboy by calling bloatware bloatware. This was not meant as a slam
on windows, but a statement of the current condition of the OS. I am sorry
you woke up on the wrong side of the bed and welcome to kill-file for your
unconstructive, militant "input".
 
Jason said:
Sorry if I riled you, but Windows is my primary OS. I didn't mean to
piss off any fanboy by calling bloatware bloatware. This was not
meant as a slam on windows, but a statement of the current condition
of the OS. I am sorry you woke up on the wrong side of the bed and
welcome to kill-file for your unconstructive, militant "input".
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It seems as it is you that woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I only
wrote what is true. I love Mandrake btw, and am a paying member. But I also
am aware that it takes 4 CD's to install Mandrake 10 AMD64 Final. I doubt
it will go over 1 cd for Windows XP 64bit. That was my point. If I offended
you by my candor, then you need to stay away from newsgroups.
 
Ugly said:
I guess you have been away from Windows for awhile. There is a program out
that will let you remove many of the xtras that you misname "bloatware"
Heck, most versions of Linux come on 3 or more CD's nowdays. Windows still
comes on 1 cd. So, who has the more xtras? :o)
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Yes, but while with Windows' 1 CD you get about 1.1G of stuff installed on your
harddrive and nothing more than the operating system, you need only 500M of a
Linux distro installed in your harddrive to get the operating system, graphics
environment and 2 or 3 desktop managers, compiler for C, C++, and Objc, 3 or 4
assemblers, the devels of all libraries, an office suite, an imaging program,
cd recording utilites, web server and php interpreter, one or two database
servers, multimedia utilities and a complete development environment.
 
What is the name of that program? Is it free?

Thanks!


João> Yes, but while with Windows' 1 CD you get about 1.1G of stuff
João> installed on your harddrive and nothing more than the operating
João> system, you need only 500M of a Linux distro installed in your
João> harddrive to get the operating system, graphics environment and
João> 2 or 3 desktop managers, compiler for C, C++, and Objc, 3 or 4
João> assemblers, the devels of all libraries, an office suite, an
João> imaging program, cd recording utilites, web server and php
João> interpreter, one or two database servers, multimedia utilities
João> and a complete development environment.

Hay, what do you expect?

Later,

Alan
 
Steve Midgley said:
For starters, it looks much more like a finished operating system. The
log-on and log-off are like XP, themes are enabled, sytem restore is
available, the parallel port works but my printer still isn't supported and
a lot of other little things. There is a firewall similar to the one in XP
SP2.

I wish I could tell you that your networking is going to work but that I do
not know. I do know that my Linksys wireless adapter still isn't going to
work but my onboard nVidia always has worked. What network card or onboard
network device do you have?

Steve Midgley
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hello Steve
3C Gigabyte onboard network, on an ALbatron K8X800 pro2 mobo.
I coundnt get a MS NIC working either with the earlier 64os.
regards malcolm
 
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