Microsoft Encourages 64-bit Development

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the opening of a 64-bit Windows Developer Lab in Redmond, WA to aid developers in the creation and tuning of applications for the 64-bit Windows platform. Along with the lab, Microsoft also announced the availability of the IA-64 Software Development Kit for 64-bit Windows. This SDK provides the latest operating system, compilers, linkers, and libraries to hardware and software designers already working on 64-bit Windows. A beta of the new platform and tools is expected sometime in the second quarter of 2000, the final shipping simultaneously with the 64-bit Itanium processor. Send e-mail to [email protected] for more about the Developers Lab, and read more about the Itanium processor and 64-bit Windows from Microsoft.com