Microsoft Migrates Internal Servers to 64-bit

daria42 writes "Microsoft says servers running the company's website and MSN Search and Messenger applications have been migrated to the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003. 'Our MSN search engine is actually built on several thousand systems running the x64 version of Windows,' a spokesperson said. In addition, 'the entire Microsoft.com site has been migrated, and we serve 30 million unique visitors every day.' According to the company, the Messenger servers handle about 70 million users."

Comments

64 bit for what?

[WolfCub1000]

Won't this create a nice set of backwards-incompatable software that won't run on 32 bit processors once people develop for XP64?

Re:It is just me, or are most Microsoft servers do

[advocate_one]

If that's so, then perhaps they really are eating their own dog-food...

I was going to post that we only have Microsoft's word on this... what's to stop them from really running this MSN stuff on top of Linux and fudging the reply headers...

Re:It is just me, or are most Microsoft servers do

[Master of Transhuman]

Accordng to tests I've read, SUSE Linux would be about twice as fast - on 32-bit anyway.

Microsoft's problem is that their server OSes simply don't scale well, which means more servers, which means more failures on average.