News Windows 64 to arrive in April

And there was rejoicing throught the land... The Inq gives us the details:

SOURCES CLAIMED Microsoft is planning to introduce its 64 bit operating system for Intel and AMD processors (iAMD64) on the 29th of April. The sources are close to Microsoft.

It appears there will be a release to manufacturing version of WinXP 64 in March. That's the stage before the CDs get stamped out and the boxes get printed.

Quite coincidentally, Intel will finally be ready with its full line of 64 bit capable CPUs, including Celeron 64s, close to that date. This, of course, is entirely coincidental and is just the way things can spookily happen at the same time in our industry.

Little AMD has talked and talked about 64 bit processing for ages now and soon we will see Windows tackling its version of iAMD64, just like the Linux OSes have before it.

March, April, what's the difference? In terms of aeonic transformations like Microsoft Longhorn, a month here and there is but the blinking of an eye.

Blink.

L'inquage

 

Windows 64-bit used up waaaay to much more memory too be use too its potentual. i have 1gb of generic ram, i would at least need 512mb more too keep the preformence i have now with the additional benefits from the 64-bit OS.

At least i think...if anyone wants too clarify, then please do so

 

in terms of games performance, will (for example) hl2 run better ona 64bit os + 64bit cpu than a 32bit platform ?

 

I know, freaky isn't it??? Freaky how it's not released until Intel have their 64bit chips ready .

Death

 

Not unless HL2 (or chosen game) was coded to use 64bit instructions

[EDIT]Opps, sry for double post[/EDIT].

Death

 

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I think the whole Intel/Microsoft thing is taken pretty much for granted. Since hearing a warm and fuzzy speech from Steve "I'm Crayzeee" Balmer at IDF last spring the press pretty much assumed they were in bed together...

IIRC there is already a non public version of Quake that runs at 64Bit.

 

Can i assume old 32bit apps will run normally without having to run them within an emulator or something?

 

For one i never even knew\heard any speach by Steve "I'm Crayzeee" Balmer and two, i just thought it was strange how we get the tech first but the software isn't released until it has a full blown competitor .

Death

 

That's a no-brainer! They're like Tweedle-dumb and Tweedle-dee....

What worries me, even though M$ have taken they're sweet time, is that the Intel/M$ unison may push a viable 64bit OS out too soon. In other words, for the sake of selling more new M$ products and Intel hardware onto us poor punters. I mean look at PCI-X, did we really need it now? No.

 

....read my sig.....
However PCI-E is taking over quite rapidly and will be the standard within the next year if not six months. For servers and whatnot they really do need it now since the expansion interfaces were the biggest bottlenecks. And PCI-X has been out for a couple of years, and was desperately needed where it is located.

 

That is correct. 32bit apps will run fine, they just won't take advantage of the full 64bit capability.

 

Celeron 64

 

slaps u for saying it first, ahh well slaps him again

 

What do you expect from a pre-release version of windows? You want it to perform efficiently? pfft

 

Wish they would spend the time and bloody well devlope longhorn, and longhorn 64bit, and longhorn server. Oh well, just have to wait till summer 2006 for it. Even know windows said longhorn will be done 2005 this year, infact in a few months, but they moved the date back more than a year due to the new filesystem WINFS.

/me goes and makes a coffee and waits.

- S

 

wooo 64bit windoze at last... now i need video editing apps to go 64bit

 

I expect to see alot of updates for this... and alot of bugs