Comments on: Microsoft skips Itanium with new Windows

In yet another blow to Intel's Itanium ambitions, software giant says big-server version of Windows won't run on ill-starred chip.

There's more activity with Linux on Itanium

I don't think this news will have that much affect on the adoption of Itanium as much of the current clustering work is done on Linux anyways. See http://www.gelato.org for information on work being done on Linux on Itanium.

[David Arbogast]

Hmmm...

What happened to Alpha's market share once Microsoft stopped shipping a compatible version of NT?

Nothing will happen

Itanium will not be affect much, since who in their right mind would use windows with a cluster. That is just asking for trouble.