Aside from the long-running Longhorn project, Microsoft’s XP Professional x64 Edition continues to be one of the most closely watched releases by the enthusiast community. The install base of X86-64 compatible processors is rising every day, and the technology is now available to system buyers at almost every price point. We’ve been promised all along that our Athlon64 / Opteron processors will flourish when used with a 64-bit operating system, but to this day, almost all users are stuck using a 32-bit operating system. While 64-bit Linux variants been available for well over a year now, a 64-bit version of Windows is what AMD needs to show the world that their 64-bit performance claims were grounded in reality.



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