At the launch of AMD’s Athlon 64 processor, the 2GHz 3200+ Athlon XP and the 2.2GHz Athlon 64 FX51, Microsoft is announcing a beta version of its Windows OS for 64 bit processors, called “Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems.” It’s expected to be available to MSDN subscribers in the first half of 2004.
is that one of those realy bad names.
windows XP 64-bit edition for 64 bit extended systems
talk about redundancy.
well, one could still stress it:
64bit windows XP 64bit edition for 64bit extended 64bit systems (it’s 64bit!)*
*64bit windows XP 64bit edition is a real 64bit operating system
Well it’s for x86-64 rather than IA64, which is just called XP 64bit Edition.
Now, they could have called it XP for X86-64, or something to that effect, but that’s noot good marketing.
Plus the AMD64 architecture is just that — x86 Extended to 64-bit, hence “…for 64-bit extended systems.”
If they made a 64-bit PowerPC edition it could share the same name/package.
“is that one of those realy bad names.
windows XP 64-bit edition for 64 bit extended systems ”
I think we now know who’s holding Leonard da Quirm prisoner in this reality
And GNU not unix ???? There is at least a reason for the differnce.
I read that it will only be able to address the 32bit instructions within the chip…
Yeah, a 64-bit OS, but what about the apps. No apps, then its not worth it.
32bit apps will only work in 32bit mode (duh) but it has 64bit capabilities on top of the old x86 32bit instructions.
Brando: How is it not worth it? You have the Athlon64 chips which were launched today, which are faster than previous Athlon chips, plus an OS to take advantage of the new architecture. The apps will come as needed. If you have an Athlon64 chip, you might as well get the new version of XP.
remember “Based on NT Technology”?
Go AMD !! Go Microsoft!!
The title incorrectly states when the beta versus the final release will be available. It should state something along the lines of:
At the launch of AMD’s Athlon 64 processor, the 2GHz 3200+ Athlon XP and the 2.2GHz Athlon 64 FX51, Microsoft is announcing the availability of a beta version of its Windows OS for 64 bit processors, called “Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems.” The final, non-beta, version is expected to be available to MSDN subscribers in the first half of 2004.
Feel free to replace ‘final’ with ‘production’ or ‘gold’. Whatever suits your fancy.
the beta is available for dl on msdn now and has been for a few days:
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition For 64-bit Extended Systems (English)
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What about WINE: Wine Is Not An Emulator, it is an alternative Win32 API. Why not just call it AW32RE for Alternate Win32 Runtime Environment? The people who think up these acronyms must work for the department of redundancy department
I would have done:
Windows XP IA64Bit Edition – Itanium
Windows XP x86-64 Edition – x86-64 (Opteron/AMD64)
The name must be the symptom of a sickness such as dyslexia, maybe is it just stuttering or the sign that Microsoft marketing department was hit by a new virus. Anyway, there never was a Windows 2000 Intel or Cyrix or AMD Edition. The Data Center edition of Windows Server 2003 is aimed at both Itanium and Athlon 64. Therefore, there is no sane reason to call something “Windows XP 64-Bit Edition For 64-bit Extended Systems”, unless this is a new licensing scheme being put in place : if a business acquires Itanium and Athlon 64 systems, it will need to buy two corporate versions, one for each architecture. Oh my !
There is something wrong with all this 64 bit fuss : how come few Windows software vendors have ever thought of making products that would work with operating systems such as Solaris or AIX ? After all, why scramble now to have 64 bit compliant applications when (years ago) they could have ported them to 64 bit platforms that were already mature ?