Blue Pill could serve as a backdoor for attackers, Rutkowska said. While it was developed on Vista and AMD's technology, it should also work on other operating systems and hardware platforms. "Some people suggested that my work is sponsored by Intel, as I focused on AMD virtualisation technology only," she said, adding that is untrue.

I tested the 32- and 64-bit editions of Longhorn Server Beta 2 in a setting incorporating several machines, the primary systems being a quad-core Opteron server and AMD?s newest dual-core Athlon 64 FX-62. The FX-62 system supplied storage services to the test LAN using an Xserve RAID storage array with PCI-Express Fibre Channel card, both provided by Apple.

Little did I know that XP64 was actually DOA, it might have been a nice idea, but I think companies just felt it was to much work to create to sets of drivers for their products, or write to different software programs for essentially the same OS. Why would companies want to do extra work when XP32 is embedded in our culture right now, and XP64 wasn't adopted by anyone but the enthusiasts or those who were curious? Those who were curious went right back to XP32 after finding all the problems that came with it, why should people try and work with an OS that really isn't supported by most manufacturers. Yes the larger companies like NVIDIA and ATI release drivers for XP64, but not often, then you have the other large companies that don't release any 64bit drivers and you are stuck with hardware that doesn't work with your freshly installed OS.

Windows Vista is Microsoft's first major update to the company's flagship operating system since Windows XP was released in late 2001, meaning partners will be left with a fifth major holiday season without a new version of the operating system to promote.

However, this has turned to be a bigger problem than we originally thought. The sad fact is you can download connectivity software for Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2, Windows XP Media Centre Edition, Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 and even Windows XP Professional Edition ? if it's a 32-bit variant (and running SP2). Sadly, Microsoft does not support x64 Windows of any kind, so forget about connecting it to the box. Xbox.