Trends in the development of hardware is very impressive. Power and compactness of the exponential growing year after year has proven yavletsya and proven facts. What is by no means be said about the program software. Unfortunately, the industry of software development industry is developing much slower hardware. If the growth momentum of improvement of microchips continues, it does not mean that the algorithms for them getting better. It often happens that the old software is in particular settings is better than new.
Now to talk about innovation and productivity software, but only in the marketing campaign, while the real software market is moving baby steps. It took a full 10 years after the 386, before Microsoft released Windows 95 – the first 32-bit operating system. On the Itanium processor that will not happen because it already has the support of the four operating systems that included Microsoft Windows (64-bit XP Edition and 64-bit Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition 2002), Linux (from four kompaniydistribyutorov: Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera, and Turbo Linux) and two versions of Unix (HP-UX 11i v 1.5 of the Hewlett-Packard and AIX-5L from IBM). However, although this is likely to take several years to market the software switched to 64-bit operating system and 64-bit software. Now found a lot of 32-bit processors, and backward compatibility with 32-bit mode allows to quickly perform Itanium 32-bit software, since it will provide the hardware, rather than emulation using software tools. Incredible potential of the theoretical possibilities of evolution in the software.