RSSWindows to Run on AMD Opteron, Athlon 64
By Nate Mook | Published April 9, 2003, 10:35 PM
Following the recent release to manufacturing of Windows XP designed for Intel's Itanium 2 processor, Microsoft has announced it will release both desktop and server editions of Windows for AMD's upcoming 64-bit processors, the Athlon 64 and Opteron.
The AMD Opteron is designed for servers and workstations, while the Athlon 64 will be featured in desktop and notebook systems.
Microsoft shipped an early development version of Windows designed for AMD's 64-bit architecture late last year. The company expects to release beta versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 designed for the new processors by mid-2003.
"AMD and Microsoft each have a history of making technology accessible and productive for the businesses and individuals who use it," said Dirk Meyer, senior vice president of AMD's Computation Products Group. "Native 64-bit Microsoft Windows on AMD provides customers a high-performance 32-bit application platform together with an easy migration path to the power of 64-bit computing."
In another show of support for AMD, Sun Microsystems announced it would likely use the new Opteron processor in upcoming products. Sun CEO Scott McNealy recently touted support for Solaris x86, which runs on both Intel and AMD platforms. Opteron will make its official debut on April 22, according to AMD.
I also think this is great news. I am not planing to use Windows with my new 64 bit CPU but it has a monopoly in the OS market and by having native support for x86-64 it can only help pushing the platform forward. Linux is allready quite well prepared for the new CPU and this is even grater news for me and for those runing servers.
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|This is good to hear - as far as I am concerned, Opteron / Athlon 64 is going to be the most interesting product of the year, and having the buy in of MS ans Sun will greatly improve accesibility to server / high end workstations for the masses.
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