Just spoke with Microsoft sales

[Guest]

Don't know if this is the real deal, but I just spoke with Microsoft sales at
1-800-642-7676 and they told me that x64 wasn't actually available to anyone
except dealers (Dell and the like). They told me that those with XP
pre-installed and that can exchange it for x64 won't actually be getting it
until it's release to everyone else (which would be in a month or so they
said).

If indeed what the sales folk told me is true (though I always have my
doubts), it looks like we will have to wait.

 

[Guest]

What else is new?

 

[kurttrail]

Don't know if this is the real deal, but I just spoke with Microsoft
sales at 1-800-642-7676 and they told me that x64 wasn't actually
available to anyone except dealers (Dell and the like). They told me
that those with XP pre-installed and that can exchange it for x64
won't actually be getting it until it's release to everyone else
(which would be in a month or so they said).

If indeed what the sales folk told me is true (though I always have my
doubts), it looks like we will have to wait.

And then wait for hardware drivers, and then wait for apps that actually
take advantage of 64bit.

You gots lots of waiting left!

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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

There is a vast amount of information on this very issue on the 64 bit
newsgroup:
A new 64 bit newsgroup was created yesterday:
microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general
Current hot topics:
Driver availability as usual
The newly announced exchange program where Windows XP Pro users may be able
to exchange for the 64 bit.
Trial version availability.
How and where to get it, etc.

All questions specific to the 64 bit Windows should be directed to the new
newsgroup.

 

[R. McCarty]

I have a 64-Bit test box. Besides VIA Hyperion, nVidia & ATI there
are pretty limited drivers available (or Beta Releases). Anti Virus choices
are still limited. I'm using Avast which seems to work well. Almost no
64-bit applications are available. So existing 32-Bit applications run in
the Windows-On-Windows environment. Many standard Apps run,
some that use a 16-Bit installer won't. (No 16-Bit support). While the
platform is in place, as Kurt said it's going to be a good while before
3rd-Party vendors catch up. As to hardware, I think 64-Bit ships with
~16,000 embedded drivers. But if you are using old peripherals I doubt
that drivers will ever be written for 64. Hopefully, the early adopters
aren't expecting some type of "Warp Speed" XP - it's fast, but testing
& benchmark scores are comparable with the same hardware running
XP 32-Bit.