Thread: Microsoft finish Support for Itanium

Microsoft is finishing its support for Intel's Itanium processor with existing version of its Windows Server OS, as said by Microsoft. "Windows Server 2008 R2 be the final version of Windows Server to support Intel Itanium architecture," Dan Reger, a Microsoft senior technical product manager said.

News comes as setback for Intel, which struggled to obtain its 64-bit Itanium processors broadly utilized by server makers. It launch new quad-core version of Itanium in February after much delay. By that time Red Hat had declared in January that it would not support Itanium with next release of its Linux OS distribution.

Microsoft carries on giving mainstream support for Itanium-based systems till July 2013, and complete support until July 2018, Reger said. Intel now dedicated to delivering two generations of Itanium in next four years, dubbed Poulson and Kittson. HP, which created bet on Itanium when it finished the development of its own PA-RISC processor, has said that it is committed to Itanium's future.

But end of support by Microsoft is certain to spark fresh round of questions about platform's prospects. For Itanium, Microsoft's move is "bad, but not terrible, at least for now," Thompson said. "Of those OS, only HP-UX and OpenVMS actually need Itanium. "So HP is last man standing in Itanium systems business, but new features and scalability of 75xx Xeon beg question, 'will HP adapt its Itanium hardware to support Xeon 75xx and port HP-UX or OpenVMS to the x64 platform?'"

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