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Windows, Memory and the limits to it

First of all, no matter how much memory you put into your system, it ain't enough. And this is true for all or at least most of the operating systems. Earlier this week Mark Russinovich wrote a blog post about "Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Read More...
Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 3:02 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Executing 32-bit Application in 64-bit

Back on May 1st, 2004 I posted about 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows and added some links to the post. Today, Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:02 PM, Jim left the comment  "It would be nice if the links to the references were valid." Well, I would Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:28 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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The 64-bit Tipping Point

Intel recently (re-) published a somewhat old document from the 2004's, " The 64-bit Tipping Point ". It has been slightly updated and is definitely worth reading if you are still considering to move to a 64-bit application model. The document Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:24 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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What is Windows Server 2008 like anyways?

You don't want to miss the new serverunleashed.com . When I saw the internal announcement I thought: "Well, a robot. Ok, so what's new?" I was about to bitch about it. Good I waited. Pretty agile boy the new Windows Server 2008. Best thing: Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:11 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Installing Vista on a MacBook Air

Unable to resist I got myself a shiny, slim new MacBook Air (MBA). While I am used to Mac OS X, I wanted it to run Vista so I can also take it to work. My MBA has a 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and a 64GB solid state drive and I bought a SuperDrive . Here's Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:57 AM by Volker Will | 19 Comments

Virtualization Starter

TechRepublic published an article about the" 10 things you should know about virtualization." If you are new to the whole virtualization thing, it will certainly get you started. The author, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, is right, "Virtualization is a huge Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:51 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

What have Visual Studio and Barcelona in common?

On one of our internal HPC aliases an evangelist from Japan asked whether Visual Studio 2008 (VS) can optimize code for Barcelona. Barcelona as in the AMD processor, not the beautiful city of Gaudi in Catalonia, Spain. Important question especially for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:38 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Inside Intel's Silverthorne ultramobile CPU

ars technica published an excellent summary of the features and capabilities of the new Intel ultramobile CPU. While tiny in size, it is a full blown 64-bit processor. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:49 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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64-bit - Coming to your Home/Office/Desktop/Server soon

I have it already you might say. But are you leveraging the 64-bit power by running a native 64-bit OS? Probably on a server but not on a workstation yet. Be it as it may. InformationWeek has a nice article titled "With Latest Server, Microsoft Rides Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:29 PM by Volker Will | 3 Comments

64-bit Content on HPC Portal

So, I've finished uploading the missing 3 64-bit Insider newsletter onto the windowshpc.net portal. All 15 newsletters are now available via this link. Read More...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 4:48 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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64-Bit Insider Newsletter

Oh no, 64-bit again. Please, leave me alone. ... Can't do that. While the Microsoft evangelism team does not evangelize 64-bit directly anymore (there's no program or alike), we ( and I in particular ) continue to receive a lot of questions on 64-bit Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:19 AM by Volker Will | 3 Comments
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Microsoft Hypervisor only on 64-bit

Looks like there is some confusion about our Hyper-V product. The Microsoft Hypervisor is called Hyper-V (as announced today). It will only be available for 64-bit SKUs of Windows Server 2008. Also the Hyper-V standalone SKU is only available for 64-bit. Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 9:59 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Free Pascal for 64-bit Windows

Developers, you love programming in Pascal and you love 64-bit Windows. Here's a free cross-platform compiler for you: Free Pascal 2.2 . Slashdot reported the news on Monday. Shame on me, the first time I hear about Free Pascal aka. FPK Pascal. Have you Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:51 PM by Volker Will | 2 Comments
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You are still not on 64-bit?

Come on. No more excuses. If your application is still not running on a 64-bit platform - preferably Windows - you might face the fact being called a laggard or worse. Don't know if that's a good attribute in your industry. Be it as it may, our beloved Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:52 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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When I'm 64

Well, I have to admit I was a bit confused by the piece from Joe Wilcox : "During a speech this morning, Bill Laing, general manager of the Windows Server division, reiterated that, after 2008, Microsoft would only produce 64-bit operating systems. Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 10:59 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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