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by macjohnmcc 1118 days ago
They were doing Windows NT for the Itanium. They were holding out hoping that this thing would take off.
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rbanffy 1118 days ago
I remember they didn’t port a lot of stuff to it - it was running mostly the BackOffice family of server apps.

I don’t think one could run Outlook on them.

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macjohnmcc 1110 days ago
When I was at Microsoft during the time I had X86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC (for a short time) and Itanium. We only did the builds for Itanium once in a while because the developers and the testers shared the expensive hardware. I believe the only versions of the product (Systems Management Server) were for the X86, Alpha and MIPS.
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