Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th May 2007 15:45 UTC, submitted by anevilyak
"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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Well, maybe, but as far as I can see it, there's no reason to have an AGP video card on a server -- you won't play games or watch movies on it.
He was talking about Vista, not Windows Server.
Even on Vista, you don't have to use Aero. Windows 2008 Server, for now, does not even support it, I think.
Most of the on-board video cards work just fine with Windows 2008 Server and Vista. You may not get Aero in Vista, but so what?
For that matter, I'm willing to argue on whether a server actually needs *any* video card at all -- but I can understand that some people prefer to have a GUI.
It just doesn't make much sense not to have it, given the price of low-end video cards that are more than enough.
Edited 2007-05-18 17:19