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This month Microsoft has released the full version of Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions.
These run on the AMD Opteron and Intel EM64T processors and, already, the IT discussion boards are full of the usual chat about the latest in operating systems.
What do you really get? Doesn't it mean extra costs in terms of software and hardware? I'm already happy with what I've got. Why would I really need anything faster?
If we look back into the history of development of Microsoft Windows based operating systems, we see that exactly the same questions were asked between the following Windows operating systems.
16-bit - Windows 3.x to 16-32-bit - Windows 9x
32-bit - Windows NT to Windows 2Kx
32-64-bit - Itanium
And now the full 64-bit Windows XP Professional and Windows 2003 Server editions.
If history is anything to go by, a huge majority will be on 64-bit operating systems within the next five years.
So let's get under the hood and see what the 64-bit version, of an already fast and secure Windows 2003 operating system, really gives us?
What You Get
64-bit architecture has been around for several years now and with Windows Server 2003 x64 we now have an operating system that can properly take advantage of this architecture.
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