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Check out here, Robert. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/downloads/upgrade.asp

And thanks for saying I'm a smart guy in your blog. ;o) I just have some time to spend. Ain't really that smart.

.NET will own the 64 bit Windows platform, because .NET code is more compatible between 32 bit and 64 bit than native Win32 code is compatible with native 64 bit code. Borland should conserve its energy and focus on making great .NET tools. Ignore native 64 bit.

It will be very important for many of us to utilize more than the 2GB application limit available to 32 bit microsoft systems as soon as inexpensive and compatible 64 bit systems become available from Intel and AMD. Intel will be forced to implement the same technooly as AMD as soon as Microsoft releases its 64 bit extended version.

If you struggle to run your applications in 2GB limit, like we do, the interim solution would be to run windows 2003 server 32 bit, where you can extend the amount of available memory to 3GB. Read this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=810371

.NET managed code is a bad choice for power applications that need a native mode.

Yes, I'm interested in a native Delphi64 compiler and I will buy it NOW!

They better hurry with 64-bit compiler otherwise we will just switch to other language...

Yes! We are very intersted in a native Delphi64 compiler! We absolute need "native mode" for our complex apps. They're too slow in .net managed code...

Yes interested, we write services using Delphi as well as standard apps. When servers and clients start going 64bit we'll need Delphi64.

On the remark
" Rephrase the question: how many of us trust AMD (64)? Right.
Not me. Better put the effort in Mac support or something. "

Mac support fair enough meant to be excellent processor and OS, but AMD 64 trust ? Yes too right their processors have been wopping INTEL for ages and MS have been testing the AMD 64 prior to the INTEL 64 of late.

My company makes CAD software and the native 64 bit Delphi compiler would be a must for us.

Native code is a must for most large organizations. .Net code is too slow for most complex operations we perform and we would most certainly be interested in the benefits of 64bit. The tale of AMD being inferior to Intel is no longer correct, the two companies BOTH make great processors and the sooner we start supporting them both, the sooner the tools will be available to us to take advantage of whatever "features" each of them chooses to deploy. I say let's forget about the past and move forward into a faster and better future, go 64Bit....

I am dying to see the 64-bit compiler, really. I am developing audio (digital signal processing) applications and 64 bit processing would be great :)

64 bit will be very very great fo >2Gb process. This will allow a new way of programming like 16 to 32 bits. If Borland doesn't make any delphi release in native 64 bit code I will have to change of complier.

i'm interested in win64, and i'll even preorder it if necessary. that's how bad i'll want to get a copy. i believe borland going the .NET route is one of the worst decisions they ever made, but then again i'm just not interested in .NET