[wellylug] windozes 64bit woes:

Sam sam at plaz.net.nz
Wed Dec 10 23:03:00 NZDT 2003


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Centurion Computer Technology Ltd wrote:

> Thats the even stranger part,  AMD64 versions of Server 2003 aren't
> expected to be out until mid 2004.  I would have thought server 2003
> would have been the more important platform to go 64 bit on.

Intel has always had a far stronger grasp of the server market than AMD...
It makes sense that the Intel version would be released first.

Also, I think the Itanium has been out for quite a lot longer than the
Opteron, so Microsoft have had more time to build and test using it.




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