In March 2004, approximately one year in advance of the official release of Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 x64 Edition, Microsoft.com decided to evaluate the benefits of implementing servers built on the x64-based hardware platform by running prerelease versions of that operating system on production www.microsoft.com Web servers. By April 2005, 100 percent of the production Web servers for Microsoft.com were running on the x64-based hardware and operating system platforms
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