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To: Paul Engel who wrote (127752)	2/18/2001 5:16:38 PM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Is Bill sharpening his wooden stake? (via JC- jc-news.com ) boards.fool.com Last week I met with a friend who works for MSFT who I have been discussing AMD with and who was also at a presentation given by Bill G last week. Apparently Bill G taked about the forthcoming 64 bit processors saying that AMD had a simple and (32 bit) compatible approach to 64-bit while Intel's Itanium had a completely new architecture that would need software to be re-written for it. Bill ended the subject by saying that MSFT will be supporting both processors. What I got from this snippet was that:- 1. MSFT are aware of the potential difficulties on getting the public to buy a new processor that wouldn't run their existing software. Potentially difficult for MSFT, bad for Intel, and good for AMD. 2. MSFT will be supporting the AMD 64 bit hammer processor. A no-brainer? Probably, but it's nice to have those words come out of Bill G's mouth. Watch out PaUl! Sarah Michelle Geller is coming for you! (she's carrying a sledgehammer!) (and don't blabber on about Itanium's hardware compatibility- the question is "compatibility at what level of performance?")