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Executive Chat - Get Technical with Microsoft and AMD Execs Please join Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President of the Windows Server Division of Microsoft and Fred Weber, Chief Technical Officer of AMD, to discuss the development and plans for enterprise-ready...

Didn't even know that this exists. Shame on me. From the abstract: "This document provides information regarding features in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition that differ in functionality from Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2). It is important...

You haven't had time to go to WinHEC? For sure, this year you missed something important. But you know this by now because it is written about in almost any and every blog, it can be found in countless magazines and on every website talking about 64-bit...

The beauty of 64-bit Windows computing is not only the increased performance, reliability yada, yada, yada. Many times the 64-bit hardware is available for the same or less and the comparable Windows OS costs the same . Under certain circumstances you...

The British are so ... so ... royal. Thanks for the proclamation : "According to Microsoft, by the end of 2005, virtually all new server class machines will be 64-bit. The company predicted that most new PCs and workstations will be 64-bit by the end...

64-bit is mainstream now. What next? As for Intel and others, the future (after and with 64-bit) seems to be dual core and multi core systems. Very nice. The question is: What about all the apps? Do they support dual/multi core? For the OS, support...

From way back when in '02 in "the good ol' days" of Itanium 1 to last month, when Intel supposedly shipped their last 32-bit only processor:

Thought about working for MS? Being passionate about server technology? Read more ......

There are so many good arguments for using a 64-bit OS instead of a 32-bit OS. Since yesterday x64 support for Windows Professional, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter Server is officially available. Today one of my colleagues did a presentation at WinHEC...

While increased speed of an application and the OS itself is certainly a major feature of the 64-bit Windows OS releases, 64-bit Windows is not only about increased performance. Nevertheless I like the slogan. And, it has traveled already far . And this...

Again, good question. Answer: Server for IPF or x64 (180 day trial): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/default.mspx Workstation for x64 (60 day trial): coming soon (a week or so)!

Well, I thought this would catch your attention. The answer is of course NO (capital N , capital O). The latest information on Windows supporting 64-bit platforms can be found in an article on CNet: Microsoft uses Longhorn to promote Itanium . The...

You don't know who Clyde is? He is one of the corner stones in our (Microsoft) 64-bit world. On the WindowsServer blog he is talking about his "exhilarating ride" to get our x64 support out of the door. Clyde in his own words: "I am a Group Program...

Don't complain. It is a new product and I'm sure you want it done right. It is no news that we run a bunch of programs for very early adopters and partners especially when working on new product releases. So does the HPC team at Microsoft. As part of...

Yesterday, a few hours before RTM, my blog posting was almost ready, I realized that this blog entry, being posted a few hours before RTM of SP1, had the potenial of becoming 'influencial' to my career. Well, at least I decided not to blog. Only to find...

A couple of days ago the Channel9 team posted interviews recorded during the Route64 kick-off event: Over the next few days we'll bring you video from the Route64 Training tour when it visited Redmond . In this first part , you meet Kang Su Gatlin (again...

You certainly want to hear more about what is going on inside Microsoft with the upcoming CCE version of Windows Server. CCE stands for Compute Cluster Edition . Details on this SKU will have to wait a bit. But wrt HPC, Microsoft is working with many...

From Dave Kearns' directory lookup benchmarking figures : Eliminating the quad x64 machine left the remaining four with the following "entries per second" returned: * 25,941 for the dual 2.2-GHz Opteron. * 15,677 for the dual 1.5-GHz Itanium II. * 3,482...

One of my colleagues from the HPC team brought this to my attention: "Jim discusses HPC/cluster computing. His comments on HPC being currently seen as a function outside the OS and the corresponding data platform currently being seen as outside the database...

From the WindowsServer blog : Please join Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Windows Server Division and Abhi Talwalkar, Vice President & General Manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group to discuss Microsoft and Intel’s industry standard...

Congrat's on being named one of the 5 companies capable of making an impact in Bioinformatics. According to a recent market survey, MSFT was among the best. Here're the links: http://gene2drug.com/about/news.asp?newsId=162 http://gene2drug.com/reports...

This week certainly was a week of partner and customer events in the 64-bit Windows world. Ø x64 Partner Summit Ø HPC NDA event Forgot to blog about it. D… Ø The second Route64 event. This time in Houston , Tx . Route64 isa worldwide developer training...

At http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10017 Do you use a 64bit CPU in your main computer? Come in and vote, let's see what the OSNews readers are running. If yes, leave a comment if you are using a clean 64bit OS with it too. Read more on this exclusive...

On Tuesday Molly Wood wrote an article on c|net: Good-bye, computer; hello, world! I like some of her condierations which start with: "Mark Lucovsky, our aforementioned Microsoft defector, was also the chief software architect for the now-dormant .Net...