All of this is right, but I was more referring to Microsoft sticking with the name "amd64" when most other platforms have moved to the name x86_64. The reason,

All of this is right, but I was more referring to Microsoft sticking with the name "amd64" when most other platforms have moved to the name x86_64. The reason, according to my former colleagues at Microsoft who worked with davec, was to be petty against Intel. In most of Intel's documentation at the time, they referred to this architecture as "EM64T" rather than admit it came from a competitor