"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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Member since:2005-11-10
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
Member since:2005-08-11
Uhm, Longhorn doesn't run Aero by default, and that's the only reason to care about your video card, so, unless you're a fool and want to waste resources by running Aero on your server, you're right, you don't need an AGP card in a server. So it's a moot point. the original post was about Vista on XP era hardware, and whether the same would hold true for the next version of Windows.
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2007-02-11
There's no reason Vista can't run on a 1.6Ghz. You might have to upgrade the ram and the VC, but a system bought in 2001 should run vista, if you up grade 2 components. and Ram is cheap. an AGP video card is cheap. it may not be the fastest thing on the block, but it WILL run Vista
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. 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.
I sincerely hope Windows Server will use resources for more useful purposes than Vista does.
Come to think of it, that Canadian firm will pump enough qubits to run Vista by the time Windows Server appears :-P