Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[kpf]

joe,

i completely agree, and yes, it would not be the very first time two companies act in a collusive way in boths best interest. But I dont think its necessary to take it into consideration for the case of AMD-64.

What I somewhat miss is that the reason for the delay is most probably much easier: Windows-64(AMD) has some issues (for specifics see appropriate NGs). Better MS kinks the very most of these out before release, otherwise the product will be in risk to be avoided.

From this viewpoint, a delay of the release would be in the very best interest of AMD as well: Imagine what a premature release of an MS-OS would do to AMD-64 if it would be avoided (and what it would do to the AMD-Common as well).

I really prefer MS to take as much time as necessary to make it work flawlessly. Also, this time is not "wasted" from this viewpoint: In a year, there will be WXP64-applications ready to demonstrate the benefit of AMD64 to users which will help very much in terms of time for broad adoption. Wich is what MS and AMD really want.

K.