last time I saw an apraisal of microsoft's plans this version of 64 bit windows was never going to be sold in stores either, it was only going to be available to oem, although that was several months ago and in light of intels announcement that has probably changed. oh, and if intel were to push the epic architecture to home users, I am sure microsoft would push their os for it into those markets, but atm, if you are getting an itanium machine, paying a couple thousand for windows server 2003 would be something of a minimal expendature.
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64-bit Intel is official
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To the first question:
Nothing, except the amount of $$ you can sink. Thats why businesses are generally higher profit margin than home users. Not only can OEM's sell their product, but they can sell their support services.
As for the second question, the lowest priced Itaniums are around $700. The motherboard is actually a lot more expensive to make than the processor itself. Since Itanium boards are high end, they generally come standard with stuff home boards can only begin to fathom... including... Minimum of Dual CPU, Dual Redundant PSU connectors, Quad Channel DDR, PCI-X, U320 SCSI, Intel Server GigE (not the cheapo crap), better caps/resistors/what not.
It'll come to the desktop when it is strategically advantageous for Intel to do so, and not before. The announcement seems timed to derail any momentum that AMD may have been building up with their own 64-bit CPUs. I think that an Intel spokesman said that they don't think 64-bit will be moving to the desktop until 2006, but that could just be a number thrown out there. If there's enough interest and software starts to show up sooner, you'll see x86-64 Intel chips for sale.
AMD can claim a moral victory of sorts, but that won't matter much on the financial statements. I doubt there were any smiling faces at AMD HQ when this annoucement was made.
Maybe he's MSCP - it offers you 25 licenses to run whichever MS products you want to familiarize yourself with. 
I don't know of any company that doesn't option one way or another, for a MSCP or some other support tier, to avoid the full blown license costs. MS products are way too expensive to pay their bogus selling points, no matter what size of company uses their product.
I don't know of any company that doesn't option one way or another, for a MSCP or some other support tier, to avoid the full blown license costs. MS products are way too expensive to pay their bogus selling points, no matter what size of company uses their product.