Microsoft Corp. is pushing forward with its plan to embrace 64-bit computing across all its products and has decided that the next version of Microsoft Exchange as well as the upcoming Windows Server "Longhorn" Small Business Server and its Centro infrastructure solution for midsize businesses will only be released as 64-bit and optimized for x64 hardware.
Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft Server and Tools, announced this at the IT Forum being held in Barcelona, Spain.
He also said that while the first release of the upcoming next-version Windows Server family of products, code-named Longhorn, will be both 32-bit and 64-bit, the future update release to that, known as Windows Server "Longhorn" R2, will bring the complete transition to 64-bit-only hardware, while still benefiting from 32-bit and 64-bit application compatibility.
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