Sometimes true leaders must boldly proclaim a new direction to their followers, then walk off a cliff to prove their determination.
For me, that explains Microsoft's introduction of the awkwardly named Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
This new version of Windows will almost certainly never attract more than the tiniest sliver of existing Windows users. And it will evaporate as soon as Microsoft delivers the next full Windows revamp, a long-overdue project code-named Longhorn, in the second half of 2006.
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