Microsoft now running 64-bit Windows on internal servers [ZDNet.au 4/29/2005] Windows client senior product marketing manager Danny Beck said 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. "Our MSN search engine is actually built on several thousand systems running the x64 version of Windows. The entire Microsoft.com site has been migrated, and we serve 30 million unique visitors every day." Beck said the company had seen a 10-times performance gain from the MSN Messenger servers since they went 64-bit. The servers handle about 70 million messenger users. See the usual at Slashdot [4/29/2005; 8:52:45 AM] 4/29/2005 9:43:03 AM    

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