Windows Server to hit 256-core support
InternetNews | at | by Mike
It may not be as sexy or as urgently needed as Windows 7, but Microsoft's server operating system took center stage on day two of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference with some pretty big news announcements.
The company is preparing to release Server 2008 R2, the second revision to the server OS released last year, and this will be the first operating system to be 64-bit only. Microsoft has up to now stuck to 32-bit and 64-bit releases for all of its operating systems, and Windows 7 will come in both flavors when it ships as well.