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"Longhorn will support whatever processors are available at the time it launches."

Lots of debate going on at MS about that. One group wants the backward compatibility while the other group wants to let the legacy support go and start with a clean slate. Unfortunately the "solution" will probably be that both are included in Longhorn and you'll install whatever is appropiate. But make no mistake, Longhorn is being aimed directly at multi-core CPUs of the 64-bit variety.

"The only work Microsoft is doing with IBM for their processors is for the Xbox."

Not quite true. Some developers already have their hands on a "PC" that uses the IBM CPU. After all, you have to have something to develop the games on. Does that mean IBM may become a major "PC" CPU vendor? Could just be, after all they are a hardware company and they do know just a wee bit about building CPUs.

I'm wondering if gamers will insist upon being able to have a "PC" for thier games and for development/hacking/tweaking games for the Xbox. They certainly have with the existing Xbox...
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Actually many folks ARE using AMD64 on LINUX  realitycheck101 | 06/01/04
True, but...  nucrash | 06/01/04
Yes and no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
That seems a little backwards to me  voska | 06/01/04
The real story  ShadeTree | 06/01/04
Not that simple...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
You forget that....  ShadeTree | 06/01/04
And you forget who IBM is.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
This is the same IBM that ....  ShadeTree | 06/01/04
Yes, they drop the ball here and there, and they are still the biggest.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
Actually Microsoft is the biggest....  ShadeTree | 06/01/04
Shade tree, IBM is #1 in databases, Application servers, IT Services, ...  Plain Logic | 06/01/04
35  Plain Logic | 06/01/04
Not at all...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
Feature Creep  voska | 06/01/04
But, MS gave them a road map.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
Interesting Speculation, but...  bc_bc | 06/01/04
Could be, but...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
Zerox computers  twostepps | 06/12/04
You last paragraph...  bchesmer | 06/02/04
MS has had plenty of time.  nucrash | 06/01/04
HUH? HArdware *claims* happen daily.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
No Wintel conspiracy this time  jheine | 06/01/04
You missed the not many apps exist part  jjworleyeoe | 06/01/04
Actually Microsoft is the biggest....  ShadeTree | 06/01/04
Nope, afraid not.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/04
Bringing out 64-bit capabilities does NOT require 4GB of memory  bilbo_z | 06/02/04
Athlon 64 3800+ runs @2.4GHz w/ 512K L2, 3400+ runs @2.2GHz w/ 1MB L2  jbormann | 06/02/04
It's ALL UpHill, The Success Plants are Blooming,,,,,  Oat Mea1 | 06/03/04

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