64-bit Vista SP1 Runs Faster than 32-bit Vista SP1 and 32-bit XP SP3!
The 64-bit edition of Windows Vista delivers not only support for larger quantities of system memory, with the high-end editions supporting as much as 128 GB of RAM, but also some extra horse power hidden under the hood.
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29.4.2008 Forget 32-bit XP SP3, It's All About 64-bit Vista SP1
Back in 2007, because of the ubiquity of 32-bit architectures, and the market's slow migration pace toward 64-bit computing, Microsoft announced that the next version of the Windows client, Windows 7, would be delivered in both x86 and x64 flavors.
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15.8.2008 Microsoft Plans to Combine 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista After SP1
A clue for the development strategy of Windows Seven? Thanks to odeeee for this post. Although it has downplayed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as just a standard refresh, Microsoft in fact plans to combine 32-bit and 64-bit versions of its latest operating system.
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16.6.2007 Download 32-bit and 64-bit Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream ISO Images
Microsoft is offering for download both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista SP1, the slipstream versions as ISO images. A slipstream version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is essentially nothing more than the RTM version of the latest Windows client with the service pack already integrated.
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29.2.2008 Windows: 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit
The evolution of Windows in parallel with computing architectures can be mapped out in accordance to the following marks: 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit and even further along.
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1.8.2008 Confirmed: Office 2010 will come in 32-bit, 64-bit flavors
Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2010 will indeed be shipping in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
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14.4.2009 Windows 7 Enterprise Trial 32-bit and 64-bit ISO Direct Download Links
Microsoft has made available free download of Windows 7 Enterprise edition for interested corporate and business customers as trial evaluation software. Windows 7 Enterprise free download has pre-installed product key which lasts for 90 days (3 months) after activated. Activation has to be done within 10 days or else the computer will shut down hourly.
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3.10.2009 Workaround to Upgrade from 32-Bit (x86) to 64-Bit (x64) Windows 7 Operating System
Direct upgrade from 32-bit (x86-based) operating system of either Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 to 64-bit (x64-based) Windows 7 OS is not a supported upgrade paths to Windows 7. When user tries to run 64bit setup.exe Windows 7 installer from within 32bit operating system, the following error message will occur.
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3.11.2009 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008 32-bit and 64-bit Language Interface Packs for Windows Server 2008 SP2 RTM
Language Interface Pack (LIP), which also known as Multilingual User Interface (MUI) is an update which can be installed into supported operating system to convert the user interface into another localize language. Similar with Windows Vista SP2 LIPs, Microsoft has also released LIPs for Windows Server 2008 SP2 RTM.
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4.5.2009 Exchange 2007: 32-bit vs. 64-bit
In reading through comments regarding Exchange 2007's lack of 32-bit support and confusion around why Microsoft decided to provide a 32-bit "test" version of Exchange 2007, I thought I'd offer some facts about this version and some possible reasons that Microsoft went 64-bit-only with Exchange 2007.
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18.9.2007 32-bit Vista SP1 = 1GB – 64-bit Vista SP1 = 1.5GB
If you think that Windows Vista was a fast operating system, then just wait for the first service pack. According to data released by Microsoft, Vista SP1 with weigh in at a maximum of 1.5 GB.
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30.8.2007 Microsoft Makes Its Own: 32-bit Windows Vista vs. 64-bit Windows Vista
With Windows Vista, Microsoft delivered both the 32-bit and 64-bit flavors concomitantly, a first for the company, whose Windows XP x64 Professional (April, 2005) was launched one year after Windows XP SP2 (August 2005) and four after the initial 32-bit Windows XP (2001).
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8.1.2008 Download Windows 7 MUI Language Packs - Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download Links
Microsoft has released MUI (Multilingual User Interface) language packs for Windows 7 RTM. The Windows 7 language packs is available via Windows Update as optional update for Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions only.
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28.8.2009 32-bit Windows Vista Eats Up RAM
Windows Vista is a system resource hog. There is little doubt as to that. But to go from there to Windows Vista actually eating up RAM... Well, in fact you shouldn't blame Windows Vista for
missing RAM in a certain scenario.
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17.3.2007 Microsoft: Vista is last version of Windows for 32-bit
It's the end of the line for 32-bit operating systems, Microsoft has proclaimed at its annual Windows Hardware Engineering conference.
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18.5.2007 Windows Vista Ultimate Ultra Lite 32 Bit
Installation is Fully Automated. Only one thing you will have to select is your Partition, rather than it..u wont need to select product key,language, or any other selection. just set back and wait till 15 mins. you will see desktop within few mins. you have to make new installation. upgrade option is not available.
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24.6.2007 16 Windows Vista MUI Packs for 32 bit Versions
Thanks to MadSheep! which report this downloads in our forum. Here are Vista 32-bit version of the 16 multi-lingual user interface kits
(MUI).
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10.3.2007 Xinput Driver for Microsoft Common Controller (64 Bit)
The Microsoft Common Controller Driver is a new game input standard that is used for both the Xbox360 console and for Windows XP SP1 and above.
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6.5.2006 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 From XP SP3 and Vista SP1 to Windows 7 - the Slow Death of 32-bit Windows
Moving onward from Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows 7, Microsoft is gearing up for the death of 32-bit versions of the Windows client. On the server-side, Window's transition to 64-bit only architectures is almost complete, with Windows Server 2008 being the last server operating system from Microsoft with support for 32-bit CPUs.
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31.7.2008 Microsoft Windows 7 Build 6801 DVD 32-Bit
Windows 7 is designed to make everyday tasks faster and easier, and make new things possible for end users.
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31.10.2008 Windows 7 32-Bit (x86) Direct Download Links
Windows 7 has been officially launched, but Microsoft never makes available official download links that allow retail customers to download setup installer or ISO image of Windows 7, despite digital downloads have been the sole distribution channel for many that purchases from online store or on MSDN or TechNet subscriptions.
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22.10.2009 MS denies Rumor: undecided on last 32-bit Windows Client
Bill Laing, a General Manager in the Microsoft Windows Server Division, has been quoted as saying that Windows Server 2008 will be the last 32-bit operating system.
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18.5.2007 Comodo Internet Security 32-bit 3.5.53518.419 RC2
Comodo Internet Security is designed to be the that integrates Comodo Antivirus, Comodo Firewall and Comodo Defense+ in a seamless manner.
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22.10.2008 The Vista driver outlook gets a little brighter
’ve been watching for the past six months as PC hardware makers deliver updated drivers to make their products work with Windows Vista. Lately, the trickle has turned into a steady stream.
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8.7.2007 Windows Vista Display Driver Model
The Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) is a new display driver architecture supported in Windows Vista. This display architecture is an overhaul of the Windows XP-based display architecture and gives users a better performing, more reliable desktop experience, while supporting new scenarios, graphics, and applications.
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2.8.2006 Vista SP1 Has Driver Compatibility Problems? Do Tell!
Ever since February 4, 2008, the day Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 were released to manufacturing, Microsoft made a move indicating that it was not entirely comfortable to release Vista SP1.
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4.3.2008 Device driver updates causing Vista to deactivate
After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA -- something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.
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24.10.2007 Vista SP2: Windows Driver Model Upgrade
Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista extends the operating system's support for drivers that play nice with all Windows operating systems.
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28.12.2008Catalyst 8.12 display driver
AMD has released the new Catalyst 8.12 display driver for Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit, Windows Media Center Edition, Windows Vista 32-bit and
Windows Vista 64-bit. The new Catalyst 8.12 drivers, aside from performance improvements, enable ATI Stream technology. View: ATI website
Download: ATI Catalyst 8.12 Display Driver
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11.12.2008Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
series Vista Beta Driver
This download is a
beta driver providing
Microsoft? Windows? Vista
32-bit and 64-bit Beta Build
5231 support for Sound Blaster
Audigy?, Audigy 2, and Audigy
4 series audio devices. It is
not fully tested and provides
limited
functionality.
nr
This download supports
the following audio devices
only:
* Creative Sound
Blaster? Audigy including
Platinum and Platinum eX
series
* Creative Sound
Blaster Audigy 2 including
Platinum, Platinum eX, and
Value series
* Creative
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
including Platinum and
Platinum Pro series
*
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
4 Pro and Sound Blaster Audigy
4
Take note of the
following:
* THIS IS AN
UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There
is no technical support for
this driver.
* We
recommend that only
experienced users install this
driver. Do not install this
driver for critical
tasks.
* This download
supports Windows Vista 32-bit
and 64-bit Beta Build 5231 and
may not work on other Vista
builds.
Dow
nload:
Creative
Audigy Beta Driver for Windows
Vista..
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17.11.2005No HD DVD or Blu-ray in 32-bit
Vista
Microsoft disclosed at TechEd
2006 in Sydney Thursday that
32-bit versions of Windows
Vista would never support
high-definition protected
content, including HD DVD and
Blu-ray movies. The new
formats will require 64-bit
systems running the x64
edition of Vista...
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26.08.2006Windows Server 2008 will be Microsoft's last 32-Bit OS
During a speech this
morning, Bill Laing, general
manager of the Windows Server
division, reiterated that,
after 2008, Microsoft would
only produce 64-bit operating
systems. Windows Server 2008
will be Microsoft's last
32-bit OS.
Laing spoke during the
second day of Microsoft's
Windows Hardware Engineering
Conference.
The
future has been an ongoing
theme among the WinHEC
keynotes. In talking about the
future, Microsoft is telling
its customers and hardware,
software and channel partners
where it will take the
technology in the 2009-2010
release cycle—and somewhat
in the meantime.
The
move to 64-bit has been much
shakier than from 16-bit to
32-bit. The transition is
slowest on the desktop, where
driver and application support
is an impediment. On the
server, Microsoft offers mixed
32-bit and 64-bit products,
with mixed acceptance. But
Laing made clear that many new
Microsoft server products
would only be 64-bit...
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16.05.2007Is 64-bit Vista ready for take off?
For many moons, I've been raising the issue of how people get to 64-bit Windows 7, which is a big compatibility shift from 32-bit Windows XP. The
obvious answer is via Vista, but is that 32-bit Vista and/or 64-bit Vista? The price includes both, so it's up to you.
Initially, Vista
was a bit short of drivers, or else had some bad drivers. That made 32-bit Vista the obvious choice for most people, because 64-bit drivers were even
rarer. The same thing applied to software compatibility, only more so, because while it does run 32-bit programs, 64-bit Vista is much less forgiving
about rubbish programming.
Now it looks as though the dramatic improvements in Vista drivers etc could be feeding through into the 64-bit
version (possibly with a bit of help from the Windows Server market, which is now almost all 64-bit). Anyway, according to Chris Flores on the
Vista team's
blog.
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04.08.2008Confirmed: Office 2010 will be 32-bit and 64-bit
Recently Neowin reported that Office 14 (or Office 2010, you choose) will most likely be shipping in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Well, as Ars
Technica is reporting, this is fully confirmed by Microsoft themselves. According to Ars Technica, an email exchange between them and a Microsoft
spokesperson revealed that, "Yes, Office will have two separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Office 2010 will be the first to do this." This means
that from now on, those running 64-bit versions of Windows will not longer have to emulate a 32-bit environment to have a working Office; it'll be
fully compatible, with all the benefits 64-bit brings.
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15.04.2009ATI Releases Catalyst Beta
Driver for Windows Vista RC1
ATI is one of the first
graphic providers to make a 32
and 64-bit driver that
supports the Longhorn Display
Driver Model (LDDM) the
Microsoft Vista revolutionary
graphic driver standard as
well as the first to provide
LDDM drivers for integrated
graphics processors. By making
LDDM drivers available more
than a full year prior to
Windows Vista release, ATI
provides developers with a
stable, feature-enabled and
performance-optimized platform
for application development.
ATI is also the first to
provide Catalyst®
Windows Vista driver feedback
via our Catalyst®
Crew Feedback program.
Product series
supported:
*
Radeon® 9500, 9550,
9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X300,
X600, X700, X800, X850
series
*
Radeon® X1300, X1600,
X1800, X1900 series
*
Mobility™
Radeon® 9550, 9600,
9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700,
X800 series
*
Mobility™
Radeon® X1300, X1400,
X1600, X1800 series
*
CrossFire™ Xpress
3200 series
*
Radeon® Xpress 200,
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04.09.2006Study: DSL Continues to
Outpace Cable
DSL penetration continues to
increase and close to half of
all broadband users use the
technology in the United
States, the DSL Forum said
Tuesday. From June 2005 to
June 2006, 46 million new DSL
subscribers were added
worldwide...
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20.09.2006Office 14 to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors
Beta releases have become a great way to discover potentialy unannounced products by snooping around in the files that accompany the beta. Ed Bott
did said snooping and is now claiming that Office 14 will ship in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Located within the Migwiz.xml file shows the code
extensions that prove that a 64-bit version does exist. This is great news for users that can take advantage of the 64-bit flavor and should come
as welcomed news that Microsoft is expanding support for 64-bit. One day soon we will hopefully be able to drop 32-bit forever.
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24.03.2009Windows Vista 64-bit Today
Chris Flores: There appears to be a shift taking place in the PC industry: the move from 32-bit to 64-bit PCs.
We've been
tracking the change by looking at the percentage of 64-bit PCs connecting to Windows Update, and have seen a dramatic increase in recent months. The
installed base of 64-bit Windows Vista PCs, as a percentage of all Windows Vista systems, has more than tripled in the U.S. in the last three months,
while worldwide adoption has more than doubled during the same period. Another view shows that 20% of new Windows Vista PCs in the U.S. connecting to
Windows Update in June were 64-bit PCs, up from just 3% in March. Put more simply, usage of 64-bit Windows Vista is growing much more rapidly than
32-bit. Based on current trends, this growth will accelerate as the retail channel shifts to supplying a rapidly increasing assortment of 64-bit
desktops and laptops.
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31.07.2008Vista: 32-bit vs. 64-bit & RTM vs. SP1
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: To augment the benchmarking of
Vista 32-bit versus Vista
64-bit that I carried out the other day I decided to run a few additional benchmarks to see which platform really is the fastest. The results are
quite interesting.
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23.02.2008Office 2010 32-bit and 64-bit to be on the same DVD?
One of the most important details about the upcoming Office 2010 release is that it will come in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, helping pave the
path towards an x64 computing future. However, people have been wondering if these versions will come separately, or if Microsoft will choose to
include them in the same package. Ars Technica have unearthed some valuable details which hint that the latter could indeed be the case; Microsoft
will most likely include both versions on the same DVD. Ars Technica posted an error message that read the following: "If you want to install 64-bit
Office 2010, you must uninstall all 32-bit Office products fist, and then run setup.exe in the x64 folder.
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19.05.2009Confirmed: Office 2010 will come in 32-bit, 64-bit flavors
Last month, a very believable
rumor started flying around in regard to Office 2010 shipping in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Check out
ZDNet and
Within Windows to see how the conclusion was
drawn. Everything pointed to Microsoft finally offering a 64-bit flavor of its Office suite, previous versions of which have only shipped in 32-bit or
16-bit flavors. In an e-mail exchange with Ars today, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Office 2010 will be available in both flavors: "Yes,
Office will have two separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Office 2010 will be the first to do this."
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15.04.2009MS denies Rumor: undecided on last 32-bit Windows Client
Bill Laing, a General Manager
in the Microsoft Windows
Server Division, has been
quoted as saying that Windows
Server 2008 will be the last
32-bit operating system. Bill
is a server guy and indeed
Windows Server 2008 is the
last 32-bit server operating
system - all future operating
systems for server hardware
from Microsoft beyond Windows
Server 2008 will be 64-bit.
A few folks took
Bill's comments on Windows
Server and applied them to
Windows Client deriving that
Windows Vista would be the
last 32-bit operating system.
That is an incorrect
extension. While Windows
Vista includes both 32-bit and
64-bit and there is a growing
community of drivers for
64-bit Windows Vista we have
not decided when Windows
Client will follow Windows
Server and become 64-bit
only.
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18.05.2007Windows Vista available on Volume Licensing
Thanks Tom Warren and
Bink for
this information that was
relayed to me yesterday
(shortly before my power
outage), but better late than
never! We can reveal that
Windows Vista is available for
Volume License users, shortly
ahead of the scheduled Nov.
17th release to MSDN
subscribers.
The
following flavours were
released:
- Windows Vista
Business 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD
English
- Windows Vista
Business 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD
UPG
- Windows Vista
Business 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD UPG
English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL MVLS Only DVD Language
Packs
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL MVLS Only DVD Language
Packs
The site
appears to be non-responsive,
it's probably being
hammered!
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16.11.2006Verizon Drops New DSL Fee
Bowing to pressure from both
the Federal Communications
Commission and irate
customers, Verizon says it has
decided not to impose a new
fee on DSL subscribers that
would have negated any savings
from DSL being exempted from
the Universal Service Fund...
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31.08.2006Vista 32-bit vs. Vista 64-bit - Benchmarked
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: My
benchmarking marathon last week seemed to generate more questions and requests for further benchmarking. A
popular request from you, Constant Reader, was to see Windows Vista 32-bit benchmarked against Windows Vista 64-bit.
You asked, I
delivered. Enjoy!
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22.02.2008ATI releases Catalyst 9.3 drivers for Windows 7
Windows 7 users with ATI cards can take a deep sigh of relief today, as ATI has finally made available the latest 9.3 release of their Catalyst driver
suite with proper support for 7.
As well as support for Windows 7, the drivers have supposedly improved Folding@Home performance on it's
HD 2000 series cards and above, and also now include the HDMI audio drivers for Windows Vista by default in the main driver package.
Unfortunately, TV capturing on ATI's All-In-Wonder cards will not function in Windows Media Center and no proper Windows 7 support is included for
this function in this release.
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18.03.2009Exchange 2007: 32-bit vs. 64-bit
In reading through comments regarding Exchange 2007's lack of 32-bit support and confusion around why Microsoft decided to provide a 32-bit "test"
version of Exchange 2007, I thought I'd offer some facts about this version and some possible reasons that Microsoft went 64-bit-only with Exchange
2007.
First, as advertised, the 32-bit version is for testing only. Many people like to test server software in a virtual
environment before making the production plunge. Take note that Virtual Server 2005 R2 does not support 64-bit guests virtual machines. Even VMware
ESX 3.0 only had experimental support for 64-bit guest operating systems. ESX 3.0.1 now includes full support for 64-bit guests, but this is a recent
release. Sure, desktop virtualization packages have supported 64-bit guest OSs for a while now, but the enterprise-variety virtualization offerings
are just catching up to this.
In short, had Microsoft opted to skip a 32-bit testing version, they would have locked out anyone
who wanted to test the product on older servers -- those that do not support 64-bit. I don't think that releasing a 32-bit unsupported test version
was irresponsible and it shouldn't be confusing. It's for testing, runs on just about any hardware you have laying around and is easily available.
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18.09.2007Identifying 32-bit Kernel Memory Issues
Clint Huffman: I'm a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) and I go onsite with customers on a regular basis to conduct Health Checks. This is my first blog
posting on TechNet, but I figured it would be on something important versus "Hello World". ;-)
More and more I am seeing
customers who are not aware of kernel memory issues on the 32-bit Windows architecture. If you are running 32-bit Windows 2000 or 32-bit Windows 2003,
then check the kernel memory. Lack of kernel memory can lead to system-wide hangs which seem unexplainable, so this is a serious issue. Always
generally use and/or recommend 64-bit or Windows Server 2008 server to avoid these issues (Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista have automatically
adjusting kernel memory pool sizes). This issue and other performance issues are addressed in the Vital Signs workshop (written by Shane Creamer),
which can be delivered by my team, Premier Field Engineering (PFE) - just contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM) if you are interested in this
course.
Here is a kernel memory chart for Windows 2003 Server...
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