As many have probably noticed that today Microsoft is increasingly produces software for 64 - bit systems, and in some cases goes further and supports only 64 - ryazryadnye versions of some products, including Exchange 2007. It seems built for Windows 32 nastaet end of the era - bitne software.

Following the withdrawal of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft put an end to 32 - bitne server, replacing it with a larger, efficient and quick 64 - bit platform. After 7 and the new Windows version Microsoft operating systems for desktop computers will come only in 64 - bit version. Of course, on the part of Microsoft is a step back - before the company claimed that Vista has become the latest 32 - bit operating system, but it appears OS 7 also will be two versions - 32 - and 64 - bit.

In many situations, 64 - bit computer systems are indispensable, and today all such situations arise more frequently. Today's server applications absorb only so-RAM, and even their own workstations require more and more memory for common tasks for the processing of the data. Of course, this is often attributed to deficiencies of the operating system, but the fact remains that, so all system administrators will have to download the bit teeth and memory computers operating under cords, and then install the 64 - bit operating systems to be able to take full advantage of this memory.

Of course, using the physical address extensions (physical address extensions, PAE) 32 - bit server can outwit and force it to use much more memory than 4 GB traditionally limited, but it complicates the problem of compatibility and can slow down work, even if quite a bit.

Of course, before 64 - bitne become widely circulated on (especially for desktop computers), and Microsoft, and producers of software and hardware will have a great deal to reduce. If a corporation wants Microsoft to ensure that users perceive 64 - bit operating system seriously, everything should work as well as in the 32 - bit OS. But until Microsoft efforts to support 64 - bit system is not very impressive - take, for example, Groove and Windows Home Server. While Office Groove runs under 64 - bit Vista, in this version are available, not all of its functions. A first edition of Microsoft Windows Home Server went without a connector for the 64 - bit clients, which made those who first established the system were in a very difficult situation. Of course, the first Service Pack for WHS solved the problem, but will start with the fact that this never should have been done.

With respect to third party software, I could list a number of problems, but one of them simply striking. At work we have a firewall SonicWall 5060. Houses on my face 64 - bit Vista, so that I can have more than 4 GB of memory (virtual machine OBOZHAYUT RAM, but I love virtual machines!). Even today, more than a year later, after the release of Vista available, the developers have not created SonicWall VPN client, compatible with the 64 - bit systems. As a result, until the guys from SonicWall raskachayutsya not, I will have to use the 32 - bit version of Vista-based virtual machine in order to get into our corporate network. I vorchu only at SonicWall, but in fact, they are - just one of the myriad companies that perceive the 64 - bit system as a "supplementary entertainment" rather than as full-fledged business.

Overall, in terms of servers, while a mixed picture, but the 64 - bit operating system, have come to the fore. In the world of desktop computers on a daily basis, continues to be used 32 - bitne software, but as soon as the 64 - bit system reached critical mass here, I think everybody zaburlit.

Although Microsoft Corporation made it known that he was going to delete the 32 - bit products from its range, it is already one of the slightest promised, so no predictions for the future. I did think that 32 days - bitne ON coming to an end, the issue only when it is finalized it will step back into the past.