64-bit - Coming to your Home/Office/Desktop/Server soon

I have it already you might say. But are you leveraging the 64-bit power by running a native 64-bit OS? Probably on a server but not on a workstation yet. Be it as it may. InformationWeek has a nice article titled "With Latest Server, Microsoft Rides The 64-Bit Range". There's some food for thought and Randy George, the author of this article, is right, "The Windows Server 2008 Los Angeles launch gala will be a requiem for 32-bit computing". At least on the server side, this will be the last launch of a 32-bit Windows OS.

Other interesting topics covered:

• Impact assessment of deploying 64-bit servers
• Virtualization (Hyper-V)
• Licensing, licensing and licensing
• Windows PowerShell
• Terminal Services and Remote Applications
• Supported resources (CPU etc) per Windows SKU
• Network security enhancements

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 23, 2008
  I'm not sure at the moment, but I remember that actually there are not more than 4 GB RAM supported. Maybe this wasn't techincally correct, excuse me. Can the 64-bit System use more GB RAM more evectively or is there no correlation? Thank You.

• Anonymous
  January 24, 2008
  Robert, you can find details about memory and resource support for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294418 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/64bit.mspx http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/The-4GB-Windows-Memory-Limit-What-does-it-really-mean- HTH, Volker

• Anonymous
  January 24, 2008
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