Windows 64 to arrive in April?

[Spinner]

The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net) have reported that their sources claim Microsoft is planning to introduce its 64-bit OS for Intel and AMD processors on the 29th of April.

Quite coincidentally, Intel will finally be ready with its full line of 64 bit capable CPUs, including Celeron 64s, close to that date. This, of course, is entirely coincidental and is just the way things can spookily happen at the same time in our industry.
Source: The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20874)

[profdlp]

Woo-Hoo! :woowoo:

[QCH]

So... How has the WinXP-64bit Beta testing been doing? How long before we will actually be able to run WinXP-64 and have it be stable?

Now that I have a 64 bit AMD, I'm curious...

[DanG]

Last I saw for public release was build 1218, and they've been on that one for quite a while. I'm sure that there are newer private beta's though. The last one I ran before 1218 was stable for everything that I threw at it, but had no gaming support. I feel that the blame for that would fall half on windows and half on the drivers.

[profdlp]

I guess an April release means that MS is confident they have the bugs pretty much worked out. Of course, any brand new OS is not to be considered fully tested until all the <strike>suckers and guinea pigs</strike> early adopters have a crack at it. :vimp:

The driver issue is what concerns me the most.

[RWB]

So will I be able to trade in my current version of XP Professional for XP64? I remember reading about this a while back.

[QCH]

Trade in... HAH!!!!! Microsoft will require you to upgrade, no doubt.

[profdlp]

No, RWB is right. Unless they changed their mind, MS has said that current users of WinXP (maybe just the Pro version?) can trade it in for Win64 when it comes out.

Of course, if they stop and think about how many Athlon64 CPU's have been sold in the last year they might renege... :rolleyes:

[deicist]

Yeah, funny how Microsoft finally have win64 ready at just about the same time Intel get their 64bit processors sorted out. The win64 beta I tried out months ago se pretty damn stable to me. Well, as stable as youd expect from microsoft.

[Wayne (Guest)]

I've got RC2 of windows 64, but it won't install onto a raid, it can't see the drives, I've put the windows 64 raid drivers onto floppy, f6'd and it finds the driver etc.. but when u press enter to install it says can't find any hard drives. seems ok on a firewire caddy though??? Microsoft eh?

[GnomeWizardd]

i used the first version a while back. IT was stable my only issue was finding drivers