News - Microsoft phases-out support for Itanium

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Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last version to support Intel?s alternative processor architecture.

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Was Itanic really ever worth it?

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Originally Posted by aidanjt

Was Itanic really ever worth it?

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It's awesome for very parallel things. Our Altix 4700 blew the competition away

Bigger question is: who runs Windows on Itanic?

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Originally Posted by directhex

Bigger question is: who runs Windows on Itanic?

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Bingo. Windows was more or less pointless on itanic.