Windows XP 64-bit for Opteron/Itanic makes WinHEC showing

WE'RE NOT way down yonder in New Orleans but that quick lot from PC Watch in Japan is, with some news for us all.

Microsoft is showing 64-bit Windows XP for both the Intel Itanium and Opteron platforms. The Opteron version has rapidly moved on from build 3754 at this year's CeBIT to Build 3790 at WinHEC, and the AMD chip is soldiering bravely away rendering R2D2 from Star Wars over at this page.

It's in Japanese, but the pictures aren't.

But wait. There's more. Here's what PC Watch has to say about the four pillars of Palladium, in Japanese.

Babeled into English, it explains about the not yet famous NGSCB quadrants that "reform the PC hardware" and will be part of Longhorn code, as we suspected.

It talks about the trusted operating root, and the kernel in Windows, and put together with the information from Intel's Developer Forum in February, gives a reasonably clear picture of where Rustworthy Computing is going. µ