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x64 RTM'ed yesterday!

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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
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  • 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...