Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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doug

Thanks for your thoughts and link. Now, from the timeframes you posted, whatever animal an "intermediate beta" is, the time between 45 days and four months is only 10 weeks. This does not match MSs common practice with every product they developed.

route64.net just makes clear that MS is concerned about the growing linux-ecosystem in serverspace. The interest they have is preventing softwaremakers to go this way. Therefore they have to communicate there is a MS-64-route available (very soon). Voila: route64.net, closer than you think makes perfect sense for a campaign to intend to direct mindshare and ressources to W64.

I dont know th "internal state" of MSWXP64. It is (more theoretically) possible that there is a nonpublic beta as we post. Could be most of the known issues are adressed already. In this case, driver support for a desktop OS is still poor. You would not argue everybody has drivers "internally" already, would you? It still will take considerable time and effort to align many thousands of these ducks in a row.

Bottomline: If i would consider to change my entry (which I dont), it would be more to H2 05.

Having said this, the time horizon i see is not a problem for AMD: The 64-bit story gains mindshare every day, creating demand for Athlon-64 for what AMD is able to deliver until next year.

K.