An even bigger endorsement comes from Microsoft Corp., which will begin shipping a 64-bit Windows server operating system for Opteron ahead of the chip’s launch. And in a break from the company’s traditional hand-in-hand relationship with Intel, Microsoft execs are talking up Opteron. They say the AMD chip helps companies that want to move at their own speed. “With 64 bits, some customers are going to want to ease into it,” says Bob O’Brien, group product manager for Windows Server 2003.”
Read the article at BusinessWeek.
I have a feeling that AMD’s x86-64 line, both Opteron and Athlon64, are going to really going to blast through both the server and desktop markets. By the time they actually hit the streets, we should be able to run a 64 bit version of Windows and probably our choice of 64 bit linux distros.
This is going to be fun.