MS to delay 64 bit version to appease Intel?

[Chris]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19112

Appears like Intel is having to make a major strategy change.

I've been (thus far) pretty happy with MS's versions of WindowsXP 64 bit,
and of course, AMD is 1yr+ in the market with nice, stable boards. If MS
delays this just to backup Intel, then bah on MS..

Any truth to the rumor? I can't believe an OS so far into the making would
go a 3 quarter setback to satisfy a hardware company.

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[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19112

Appears like Intel is having to make a major strategy change.

I've been (thus far) pretty happy with MS's versions of WindowsXP 64 bit,
and of course, AMD is 1yr+ in the market with nice, stable boards. If MS
delays this just to backup Intel, then bah on MS..

Any truth to the rumor? I can't believe an OS so far into the making
would go a 3 quarter setback to satisfy a hardware company.

Chris,

Read the article again - where do you see any correlation between a new
onboard memory control/chipset that they "claim" may not be available until
late next year and our operating system that is written to run against the
CPU and its instruction set and has very little dependency on the chipsets
on the motherboard.
Do we release a different build of Windows for the myriad chipsets out their
that support the different memory access methods DDR, dual channel etc etc
etc or single/dual/multiple processors systems ? - no.

The reason we do not discuss release dates is that we do not ever discuss
them as they driven by many factors so to announce one and then continuously
have to change it does no-none any good.



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