Windows XP X64 Goes Gold

Kasracer writes "According to The Inquirer, 'Microsoft has released the final version of Windows XP 64 to manufacturing, meaning that those with machines that have 64-32 bit processors in from AMD and latterly Intel can now see what the extra addressing brings to the party.'"

If it went gold

[Anonymous Coward]

...why are they so afraid of pyrites?

Historian Publishes!

[Spawn of CowboyNeal]

Ganymede's report on the CRAPPIEST 64-bit operating systems in the World

1: Windows XP X64

that is all.

Re:If it went gold

[Rosonowski]

Well, they're still trying to iron out all the bugs.

4/1

[Primal_theory]

Ok, is it still april fool's day somewhere?

And ...

[canwaf]

Bring on the 64 bit Viruses!

Heh

[strider44]

we can now say "finally Windows has caught up with Linux".

Cue the candid laughter everyone.

April Fool ?

[zbeeble]

Yesterday's stories where more convincing.

Re:4/1

[Anonymous Coward]

4th of Jan?

It's all fun and games...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Anyone aware of a list of Windows software (perhaps on MS's site) that'll benefit from it?"

Solitaire.

The scientific discovery of the decade....

[carlmenezes]

MS Gold can actually rust

Gold Plating

[turgid]

Microsoft was well aware of the old saying, "You can't polish a turd," so not to be defeated, they gold-plated it instead.

/me ducks.

Re:If it went gold

[Everleet]

Steeling it should be easy, just watch out for coppers.

Re:Oh good... -- No, you are incorrect

[Ada_Rules]

...now I get to have twice as many problems than I have now with XP 32? :)

This is a common misconception. 64 bit computing does not give you twice as many problems as 32 bit computing. Each time you add a bit you double the problems so in fact you will have 2**32 more problems. The only issue I see is that many of the problems do not really show any increase at 64 bits yet so we will have to wait a while for all of the vendors to port them. I hope this clears things up ;)

Re:can now?

[Anonymous Coward]

t's a cheap and cheerful server platform without some of the worst cruddiness of x86...

I keep trying emerge -uD cheerful but it never compiles. I have to use the gloomy default.

The biggest challenge for Windows...

[Illserve]

As processor speed, memory and disk space continue to spiral to ever larger values, Microsoft is really going to be put to task in finding ways to make Windows sluggish.

Their task is made more difficult by advances in compiler design which find an eliminate trivial solutions that simply chew up CPU time by computing huging cosine tables and then overwriting them.

New innovation may come from recent advances in polling network devices unnecessarily and hanging various threads until a reply is received. In the case of pulling a device off the network that Windows Explorer had browsed in the last 15 weeks, a given thread can hang for minutes, chewing up processor time in loops that scan network traffic.

The Windows Development team seems optimistic that they can produce the same crippled user interface on new 64 bit architectures that customers have become familiar with, a valuable marketing strategy in teaching consumers to become suspicious of computers with more responsive interfaces.

Re:If it went gold

[Anonymous Coward]

Steeling it should be easy, just watch out for coppers.

That's not what I've been lead to believe, but your statement gives me a silver of hope.

Microsoft complaining

[Anonymous Coward]

about the bittorrent version in 5... 4... 3...

Re:If it went gold

[Kevin Khatchadourian]

A waste of a silver tongue but it lead to this you guys need a kick in the brass, that's what I zinc at least.

Re:If it went gold

[kclittle]

I think you guys are trying to be funny, but I'm not sure -- I have such a tin ear for puns.

April Fool's Day Was Yesterday

[Pensacola Tiger]

Just like Microsoft - one day too late.

Re:Is there a list of softare ready for it?

[nsasch]

But the 128-bit platform will definately be released in the next 25 years, well before Duke Nukem Forever comes out.

Come again?

[WalterGR]

...meaning that those with machines that have 64-32 bit processors in from AMD and latterly Intel can now see what the extra addressing brings to the party.

Wha???

Let's see... 64 minus 32 is 32... so I don't get extra addressing, right?

Oh, I see... you meant if you have sixty-four processors which are all 32-bit. Your hyphen was in the wrong place: that should be written "64 32-bit processors".

No, wait. Did you mean "64-32 bit processors" as in "some number of 'bit' processors between 64 and 32"? Typically you put the smaller value first... Hold on: do AMD or Intel even make 1-bit processors?

Oooohhhh.... you must mean x86-64!

;)

Re:Historian Publishes!

[igny]

Why did you choose to play French?

Re:If it went gold

[fyngyrz]

I thought I smelt an attempt at humor. I mean, generally I don't mine this kind of thing, but something more refined than all these digs is what shows your metal, don't you think? You're just giving people the shaft when you alloy yourself with earthy humor of this type. Crystalize your thoughts, you'll just lava the results. Puns are too mercurial to keep you golden; I suggest you forge something more lasting and fold in some edgy commentary, that'll cut a swath through the readership. Dig?

Thanks, I'll be here all week.

Re:If it went gold

[LilGuy]

Way to completely destroy any semblance of humor in that joke. Good job nerd.

Re:If it went gold

[Atmchicago]

I think you just alluminated the world of puns for the rest of /.

Re:If it went gold

[fyngyrz]

Curses, foiled again!

Mod parent up

[Anonymous Coward]

+5 insightful

Re:If it went gold

[Junior J. Junior III]

If you mangle your English enough with metallic puns, are you in fact actually speaking manganese?

Re:If it went gold

[Anonymous Coward]

If you mangle your English enough with metallic puns, are you in fact actually speaking manganese?

No, that's the language used in Japanese comic books. I don't mean to be an astitine about it, but this is Americium.

Re:If it went gold

[SanityInAnarchy]

To be more precise, you rocked our world.