Replies to post #22608 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

So you think that MS will ignore Intel's Montecito?

No but they realize that no one is going to buy an IPF
box for low end compute trivial MS applications like
email, FAX, and print servers. Also, a lot of this SW
is x86 specific legacy hairball type stuff which would
be a huge pain to clean up and verify on IPF.

They are supporting IPF for big iron, back office apps
like database and ERP.

[jhalada]

Durl,

So you think that MS will ignore Intel's Montecito?

Given MSFT statement that those apps "will be exclusively 64-bit and optimized for x64 hardware," is a strong indication of a low priority Microsoft places on the Itanium line.

But it is not necessarily a bad news for Intel. Intel has 64 bit Xeon line that will be able to run these apps...

Joe