Spanky Deluxe
03-02-2005, 03:02 AM
Hi guys,
I was just wondering if you guys thought this whole Windows XP Proffesional 64 bit thing is just some nasty little deal between Intel and Microsoft. It seems a bit of a coincidence that just when Intel finally announces its 64 bit processors that Microsoft says its going to release XP64 in the coming months.
The only 'legit' explaination that I can see is that Microsoft didn't want to release the software until it had drivers available for the Intel 64 bit processors but surely they could have just released XP64 and then have had a service pack ready by now to update it for all of the Intel stuff.
XP64 has been available as a Beta for what seems like years now (is it actually years??), which seems to be way longer than other beta OSes I've used.
Any views?
I was just wondering if you guys thought this whole Windows XP Proffesional 64 bit thing is just some nasty little deal between Intel and Microsoft. It seems a bit of a coincidence that just when Intel finally announces its 64 bit processors that Microsoft says its going to release XP64 in the coming months.
The only 'legit' explaination that I can see is that Microsoft didn't want to release the software until it had drivers available for the Intel 64 bit processors but surely they could have just released XP64 and then have had a service pack ready by now to update it for all of the Intel stuff.
XP64 has been available as a Beta for what seems like years now (is it actually years??), which seems to be way longer than other beta OSes I've used.
Any views?