Sunday, May 08, 2005

Microsoft shifting its internal servers to 64 bit

We might all be aware of the prominent 2038 problem which is going to rock our entire network systems due to time_t funtionality in timing calculations.The core of this problem is due to the usage of 32 bit represenations.Now that Microsoft has announced this good news .
Danny Beck, Microsoft Windows client senior product marketing manager, confirmed on Friday that servers running the company's Web site and MSN Search and Messenger applications had been migrated to the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003.
while Microsoft is keen to tout the server version's stability, the desktop version might have some issues, hardware makers have said.
Microsoft's next generation LongHorn operating System is expected to use this in wide.
Courtesy zdnetindia

1 comment:

Prashanth said...

the problem is done away with by making the time_t structure a 64 bit object.

so to solve the problem... just upgrade ur version of windows to the latest longhorn (i guess it wil b out by late 2006) or if u r using linux... use any kernel after 2.4.x