Allchin Talks Up Longhorn, 64-Bit Computing  By eweek  |  Posted
2004-05-10  Allchin Talks Up Longhorn, 64-Bit Computing
Microsoft Corp. used its recent annual WinHEC conference in
Seattle to give more specifics about the roadmap for the release
of Longhorn, the next version of Windows, as well as to talk up
potential future adoption of 64-bit computing. Jim Allchin,
Microsofts group vice president of platforms, sat down with
eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli after his keynote address.  You
talked about a new technology that allows devices and PCs to
power up from a "sleeping" state in under 2 seconds called
"Instant On" in your keynote. Is this technology in any shipping
products yet?  This is fabulous technology, and the work around
this has been quite something. We havent decided when to include
it in a shipping product as yet, but it will be soon. What you
saw was work that dealt with a whole lot of the peripherals, but
we can get the amperage down to 50 percent if we do the rest of
the work. We are almost