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Microsoft Pushes Users Down the 64-Bit Plank
By Mary Jo Foley

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Microsoft has drawn a line in the sand. On Tuesday, at the IT Forum in Barcelona, officials went public with a list of software which the company is planning to deliver 64-bit versions only. The list: Exchange Server 12, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the Longhorn Small Business Server, Microsoft's midmarket server, code-named "Centro," and Windows Longhorn Server R2 (the Windows Server release expected around 2009) . All of these "will be exclusively 64-bit and optimized for x64 hardware," Microsoft officials said. In related news, Microsoft released Beta 2 of its Compute Cluster Server 2003 on Tuesday, as well.

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1887002,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

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