Microsoft To Train 10,000 System Builders On x64 Windows

… Microsoft aims to train 10,000 system builders this year on its new 64-bit version of Windows as part of a major partner push for the latest and next-generation versions of Windows, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said Monday.

The Redmond, Wash., software giant plans to do “a lot of training in the system builder channel” to educate them and their customers on the capabilities of the x64 version of Windows 2003, Gates said at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2005 in Seattle. Microsoft is releasing Windows x64 at the show this week.

“We want everyone to understand at the server level that the benefits [of 64-bit Windows] are very dramatic,” Gates said. …

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