Windows XP 64 goes gold

“ MICROSOFT HAS released the final version of Windows XP 64 to manufacturing, meaning that those with machines that have 64-32 bit processors in from AMD and latterly Intel can now see what the extra addressing brings to the party.

No doubt people can also look forward to future service pack releases from Microsoft, but we mustn’t be too churlish about this, even though the OS is long delayed. Only the most absurdly cynical would suggest that it’s been delayed because Intel was hurriedly racing to catch up and make its chips similar enough to AMD64 processors to run the OS. “