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Microsoft to Require 64-bit Processors

Posted by samzenpus on from the upgrade dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes "According to News.com Microsoft has said they will require 64-bit instruction set processors (AMD64/EMT64) for all future processor releases. These include Exchange 12, Longhorn Server R2 and Small-Business Edition Longhorn Server among others. I guess we have to bite this bullet sometime."

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  1. Re:Is this bad or good? by Vancorps · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Curious, have you looked at performance of EM64T?

    Last I checked it was almost as laughable as the dual core Xeon.

    Naturally things change so my info could be out of date. Basically as I recall it was so slow it was like running 32bit code an the original Itanium. I recently upgraded one my Opteron web servers to the 64bit version and I'll tell you, there is a dramatic increase in system throughput which is good since there will be a giant traffic spike coming up when we're on TV Dec. 1st.