Windows xp professional 64bit

[Juraj Petrina]

Hi, I want to download windows xp professional 64 bit on virtual box, but when I look on the web for some sites that can offer it it looks sketchy I don't want no malware on my laptop does anyone here know any legit site where I can get it?

 

Thanks. 

[WereCatf]

5 minutes ago, Juraj Petrina said:

Hi, I want to download windows xp professional 64 bit on virtual box, but when I look on the web for some sites that can offer it it looks sketchy I don't want no malware on my laptop does anyone here know any legit site where I can get it?

First of all, Windows XP isn't free, so unless you have a CD-key for it, you're asking for a pirated copy. Piracy is against the forum-rules. Secondly, the only truly legit source is Microsoft.

[Kilrah]

XP was never distributed digitally and hasn't been sold for years now so the only way to get a legit copy would be to find someone selling a sealed, boxed one on ebay or such.

[Juraj Petrina]

1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

First of all, Windows XP isn't free, so unless you have a CD-key for it, you're asking for a pirated copy. Piracy is against the forum-rules. Secondly, the only truly legit source is Microsoft.

Oh ok, and where can I buy it, I cant find it on Microsoft website.

[Juraj Petrina]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

XP was never distributed digitally and hasn't been sold for years now so the only way to get a legit copy would be to find someone selling a sealed, boxed one on ebay or such.

Thanks for the help.

[Master Disaster]

XP64 is not a good OS anyway. It was part of Microsoft's first generation of X64 capable OSes and fun fact XP64 isn't even really XP at all. It was built using the X64 core of Server 2003.

 

It doesn't handle X64 applications particularly well and it has some compatibility issues with certain X86 apps. WOW64 wasn't really finished until Vista. I remember, even back when XP64 was current, the vast majority of the tech media recommended not running it which I found to be funny since at the time Athlon 64 had come from nowhere and taken the lead in the CPU wars yet there wasn't really an MS OS that could utilise it fully.

 

My understanding is that the R2 update (remember that XP64 is based on Server 03 and uses Server 03 releases rather than XP Service Packs which means there's no SP3 for XP64) fixed quite a lot of the issues but some still remain unfixed to this day. Also important to note that not all XP32 drivers work on XP64, most do but some don't (though that's not an issue in a VM anyway).

 

I've personally got an ISO and its a totally unremarkable OS. It looks and feels exactly like XP but runs worse (at least in my testing) and cannot run everything XP32 can.

[Kilrah]

I ran XP64 as main OS for 2-3 years back in the day until Win7 came out because there was no way in hell I'd be running Vista yet I wanted to make use of my 4GB of RAM. 

 

I don't recall ever having an issue with app compatibility, only a couple of older obscure peripherals that never got 64bit drivers (so they'd be dead on Vista 64 as well).