> > No. Windows NT/2000/XP Pro and Server can run on RISC based processors.
>
> But they're not binary compatible with x86 CPUs, also this means MS would have
> to support different source trees (as if they don't have enough going on
> already), not to mention they'd have to get everyone to recompile their drivers
> for the Power architecture.
>
> I don't think it would make sense to support Windows to other architectures.
>
> Also this has been tried before, Windows NT was a flop on architectures other
> than x86 because most other platforms already had their own custom OSes.
> Windows on other architectures has little or no software support.
>
> Of course this would change with .NET, but then everyone would have to port
> everything to .NET...
>
> All the advantages of running Windows (backward compatibility, hardware support)
> would pretty much be lost.
>

I bet they switch back to x86 then. Watch them go Athlon64.