joe wrote:
Realistically figure Longhorn in 2007. Companies that lease hardware are usually on a 3-year cycle so people leasing now already better be getting x64 or very close to it. I doubt most are as I don't believe the acceptance is anywhere as deep as MS seems to imply in that release, heck I still see W2K and E2K on old old hardware on a regular basis. Actually more regularly than I see E2K3 and K3.
OK - but Longhorn in its current time frame which I think You are talking about 2007 release will still support 32-bit architecture. This press release states that Longhorn R2 will be the version which will be 64-bit only. I don't know what is a time frame for LH R2 - maybe we will get rid of 32-bit boxes as aservers till then for other reasons (64-bit may become cheaper then 32-bit)
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