Exchange '12' to be 64-bit only
ENT News | at | by Mike
Microsoft has seen the future and it is 64-bits. That's the message coming out of the company's European IT Forum 2005 this week in Barcelona, Spain.
Company executives revealed that the next major release of several key server products will only run on 64-bit processors from Intel and AMD. High on the list, the next release of Exchange Server -- currently codenamed Exchange 12 -- which is due out in 2006, according to Samm DiStasio, a director in the Windows server group.
"A lot of what we do in the server business [centers] around reducing complexity," says DiStasio. "[64-bits] does affect scalability in terms of memory addressing but there?s also a security component of that."