Sgolds, Re: Microsoft very much wants to be the premier server company, and that does not happen without a compelling 64-bit story.
The server market is a different story, but that market's desire for 64-bit computing is born from the need for larger flat memory address space, not a need for "64-bit performance".
Re: With Apple, AMD and Microsoft pushing 64-bit, the consumer will want it whether they need it or not.
Now you're confusing the high end and consumer markets. They are not the same thing. Microsoft developed Windows 2003 Server and Windows 64 to have a greater presence in the server and workstation markets, but I don't see them pushing as hard on the client side.
Re: every kid will want a 64-bit solution.
When Atari came out with a 64-bit Jaguar, did every kid rush to buy one?
Re: The issue isn't 64-bit graphics, the issue is large DRAM memory to feed data quickly into that 64-bit graphics.
Consumer memory requirements won't reach 4GB for another few years. If anything it will be driven by the introduction of Longhorn, not by the interim apps in between.
Re: Double-precision 64-bit (meaning 128-bit) floating point. Yet another advantage!
That doesn't make sense. Double-precision floating point is 64-bit (not 128-bit), and Intel already has this capability, both in their floating point units, and in their vector SSE-x units.
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