Re: Microsoft to limit Windows apps on IA64

From: Alan Greig (greigaln_at_netscape.net)
Date: 09/04/05 

Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:05:14 GMT

JF Mezei wrote:

>
> I think that Longhorn on IA64 will be the last version of Windows for
> IA64. Microsoft is probably constractually obligated to release it.

Hahahahaha. Microsoft contractually obliged? What happened - they sack
all the lawyers or something?

> Microsoft's Longhorn Server version of Windows will support Intel's
> Itanium processor, but only for a limited number of higher-end jobs,

Zero is a limited number.

> "Longhorn Server for Itanium won't run all workloads," a Microsoft
> representative said in a statement.

If it ran none that statement would be true.

> The operating system is designed for three specific types of higher-end
> tasks: databases, custom jobs and line-of-business applications such as
> accounting and customer relationship mananagment, or CRM. Among the

Designed for makes no promises forward.

> tasks it won't be able to handle are "fax server, Windows Media
> Services, Windows SharePoint Services, file and print servers, and
> others," Microsoft said in a bulletin.

"Among the tasks it won't be able to run." Please... 

-- 
Alan Greig

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