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To: Road Walker who wrote (105529)	7/13/2000 9:46:38 AM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) of 186894

<W2KIA64! Great news!> Gee whiz fellows. Don't get yourself in a lather. How about a bit of a reality check? The sucker isn't going have Win64 ready in time... So my question to Tench and Paul for months: Which OS and why? Linux. Okay... tell me how big a market that is. Rob theregister.co.uk Timescale-wise, the "technology preview" of 64-bit is maybe a little ominous too. Technology preview is Microsoftspeak for alpha, or even pre-alpha, and although it means developers and hardware manufacturers will be able to get their hands on Win64 code in some kind of shape from now on, it seems reasonable to doubt Microsoft's ability to ship finished code in sync with the Itanium rollout. Microsoft's new schedule for Whistler calls for shipping in second half 2001, and Whistler is due to go into beta any time now. So go figure on Win64's chances. In the past slippage on new operating systems hasn't made a great deal of difference to Microsoft, because there's been no competition and the hardware manufacturers have just had to wait, but it's different with Itanium, because there's Linux and a clutch of Unices poising themselves to jump in.

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