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To: Windsock who wrote (165322)	5/22/2002 4:06:58 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 186894

Windsock, I think you are mincing words. Microsoft pretty much agreed on building x86-64 support into the Windows OS, but the only real question is when it will be available. The next Windows release will be next year, called Longhorn, and after that (2004 or 2005, I forget which) will be Blackcomb. x86-64 will likely be built into one of these code bases, but there is also a possibility that Microsoft will do a point release as well, which could put the launch at some point in the middle of these two dates. It's hard to tell what Microsoft's plans are, and how hard AMD will continue to push them, but the only unlikely event is that there will be such a Windows release before the end of this year. There has simply been too short of notice for that, and it wouldn't be Microsoft's style. wbmw