Linked by John O'Sullivan on Fri 17th Oct 2003 17:48 UTC
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981. "64 bit is coming to desktops,there is no doubt about that, But apart from Photoshop, I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, which is what you have to have in order to benefit from this technology." It seems to me that by the time it ships, Longhorn will need 4 gigs of RAM.
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Nothing to see here, folks.
Intel's problems are obviously not Microsoft's problems. But a swift uptake of 64 bit desktop systems will be problematic unless MS moves quickly. There is no shipping 64 bit XP for the Athlon. But there are multiple shipping Linux distros with full support.
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Could this be a mistake as significant as the failure to note the importance of the Internet in 1993 and 1994? We'll see, but betas of a 64 bit XP are all they've promised for the short-term.
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Anyone seriously think Microsoft would be blindsided by something like that? They have their fingers in so many pies precisely for that reason - so they can't be caught flatfooted by some Next Big Thing(tm).
Remember: in a poorly-regulated corporatetocracy, brute strength and ruthlessness always comes out on top.