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For Itanium, Microsoft's move is "bad, but not disastrous, at least for now," Simpson said.
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"Of those operating system platforms, only HP-UX and OpenVMS actually require Itanium. GCOS and SEL are both supported on x64 processors, which will probably hasten the end of support on Itanium now that x64 can match Itanium for reliability," Simpson wrote.