Windows XP x64
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Windows XP x64
You know that cliché of the empty street in a western outpost just before a climactic shoot out where a solitary bell rings high noon and a slow wind blows a ball of tangleweed and dust around the near-cavernous seeming road? That's what Microsoft Update reminds me of for Windows XP x64. Install XP x86 with SP2 fresh on a box and there are some 70 or so critical updates to download and watch tick by. For x64, there are five. It's spooky. The main reason would seem to be XP x64 Service Pack 2 which came out last week on...
I decided to repave my main box this weekend and as Asus aren't supporting the A8V Deluxe motherboard in Vista, I thought I'd switch to working 64bit anyway and installed Windows XP x64 instead. Which, having had the benefit of being out for a good couple of years in now reasonably supported - well, almost. The advantage XP64 has is that it does support much newer motherboards by itself and indeed half the drivers I would have installed from the CD that came with the mobo were installed by default anyway. And so what if there is no x64 driver...