
"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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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.