Comment Comment by RandomOpinion > Potentially capable; their support for non-x86 has always fallen short."Microsoft will continue to provide mainstream support for Itanium-based systems until July 2013, and extended support until July 2018." -- http://www.computerworld.com/article/2516742/computer-hardwa...Itanium came out in 2001 and the above article is from 2010, so that would be about 9 years of product releases and 17 years of support overall.And, frankly, there's no money to be made off of supporting all those miscellaneous architectures so Microsoft has no reason to bother. parent RandomOpinion 9 years ago
"Microsoft will continue to provide mainstream support for Itanium-based systems until July 2013, and extended support until July 2018." -- http://www.computerworld.com/article/2516742/computer-hardwa...
Itanium came out in 2001 and the above article is from 2010, so that would be about 9 years of product releases and 17 years of support overall.
And, frankly, there's no money to be made off of supporting all those miscellaneous architectures so Microsoft has no reason to bother.