Operating System selection issue in Edit Profile

[Jakob99]

There is nothing wrong with selecting an operating system from within Edit Profile, that works as intended, however, I think there is a mistake with it as one of the choices you can select is Windows 2000 x64 Datacenter, which, from my understanding did not exist outside of the planning stages and a few banners found within Windows "Whistler" XP (alongside the Windows 2000 Personal x64 banner). Hoping for some clarification here.

[D.Draker]

6 hours ago, Jakob99 said:

There is nothing wrong with selecting an operating system from within Edit Profile, that works as intended, however, I think there is a mistake with it as one of the choices you can select is Windows 2000 x64 Datacenter, which, from my understanding did not exist outside of the planning stages and a few banners found within Windows "Whistler" XP (alongside the Windows 2000 Personal x64 banner). Hoping for some clarification here.

Technically speaking, it's an error. Windows 2000 existed only as IA-64, not x64 !

It was a very rare OS shared only with a limited set of manufacturers,

and only in Western Europe ! You aren't getting a copy !

Windows Whistler build 2285 exists and it's also IA64, not x64. 

An example is Fujitsu-Siemens, they developed an IA64 CPU earlier than Intel.

Articles deleted or never existed in the first place. Found some hard proof .

Scroll to the bottom and you will see - Scott Bekker is (now most likely was) editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.,

on July 05, 2000 he wrote : "..Fujitsu-Siemens also demonstrated a 64-bit Itanium box."

Again, Fujitsu-Siemens made an an IA64 CPU earlier than Intel, so they needed an IA64 system,

and the system it ran was IA-64 Windows 2000 Datacenter.

https://rcpmag.com/articles/2000/07/05/fujitsusiemens-sets-benchmark-on-datacenter-server.aspx

And again, only for the Western European market ! 

"Fujitsu-Siemens demonstrated its system today at Microsoft TechEd Europe in Amsterdam."

[Jakob99]

1 hour ago, D.Draker said:

Technically speaking, it's an error. Windows 2000 existed only as IA-64, not x64 !

It was a very rare OS shared only with a limited set of manufacturers,

and only in Western Europe ! You aren't getting a copy !

Windows Whistler build 2285 exists and it's also IA64, not x64. 

An example is Fujitsu-Siemens, they developed an IA64 CPU earlier than Intel.

Articles deleted or never existed in the first place. Found some hard proof .

Scroll to the bottom and you will see - Scott Bekker is (now most likely was) editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.,

on July 05, 2000 he wrote : "..Fujitsu-Siemens also demonstrated a 64-bit Itanium box."

Again, Fujitsu-Siemens made an an IA64 CPU earlier than Intel, so they needed an IA64 system,

and the system it ran was IA-64 Windows 2000 Datacenter.

https://rcpmag.com/articles/2000/07/05/fujitsusiemens-sets-benchmark-on-datacenter-server.aspx

And again, only for the Western European market ! 

"Fujitsu-Siemens demonstrated its system today at Microsoft TechEd Europe in Amsterdam."

Yeah, but regardless, it shouldn't be there as the IA-64 version was never released to the public, only to those specific testers like Fujitsu-Siemens, as you mentioned.

[xper]

Windows 2000 x64 Datacenter removed.

[D.Draker]

On 3/16/2023 at 4:59 PM, Jakob99 said:

Yeah, but regardless, it shouldn't be there as the IA-64 version was never released to the public, only to those specific testers like Fujitsu-Siemens, as you mentioned.

Well, why would it matter ? The OS existed in the IA-64 form, and someone from Western Europe can still use it. As for the wrong x64 name, I agree !