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MS supports AMD64, IA64 and x86 architectures. They also supported PowerPC back in the NT3.x days. They have never locked anyone into any hardware.
I have a hard time believing that x86-64 is much more than a 64-bit extension (or update) of x86 before it. Okay, it was designed by AMD instead of Intel, but so what? It's still basically just an extension to the same old architecture. And there's plenty of other architectures besides x86/x86-64 and IA64.
Edited 2008-11-20 02:07 UTC






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MS supports AMD64, IA64 and x86 architectures. They also supported PowerPC back in the NT3.x days. They have never locked anyone into any hardware.