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Re:The end of Wintel by konad on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @11:11AM (#1571423)
Rather than mod you down : 64bit servers is where it was at. All those AMD64s in the data centre with >4Gbs RAM

XP64 was crippled by bad drivers.

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Re:The end of Wintel by rbanffy on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @12:56PM (#1571821)
I wonder if Alpha would have succeeded if, in addition to NT, Microsoft ported Office, the whole BackOffice family and Visual Studio. It's not that hard to blame them for the fact we still use hypertrophied 8080s.
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