x64 RTM'ed yesterday!
I just had to write something. The x64 OS RTM'ed last night. I'm upgrading all my machines to it today. It's been a long haul, and I'm quite happy that it's finally out the door.
Now I'm just trying to find an article that discusses it for more than 1 sentence. Everyone talks about Win2K3 SP1, which is fine, and all, but the x64 version of this thing is brand-spanking-new, and there's almost nothing talking about it! Anyway, I'm just happy that the OS is out there. Whidbey Beta2 is coming in a couple weeks. The combination of the two is a spectacular developer workstation: You have the ability to develop & test 32 & 64 bit apps on the same system. I love this thing!
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- Anonymous
March 31, 2005
Which? Server or XP? I'm more interested in XP. - Anonymous
March 31, 2005
Whidbey Beta 2 in a couple of weeks? Any chance of a more specific date? :) - Anonymous
March 31, 2005
Both. WinXP Pro for x64 is based on Win2003 source code, with all the XP Pro bells & whistles. I'm writing this right now from XP Pro x64 :-) - Anonymous
March 31, 2005
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
March 31, 2005
Any issue with running VS 2005 on Server 2003 x64 ? - Anonymous
March 31, 2005
Nope - I've run Whidbey on all flavors of the x64 OS - Pro, Server, Enterprise Server. They all work fine. If you're trying to do 32 bit web server development, there are a couple of weird hoops you have to jump through, because IIS is 64 bit, but I've heard it's pretty straight forward...