A Microsoft disponibilizou nesta quarta-feira a versão beta do Windows Server 2003 para o AMD Opteron (chip de 64-Bits da AMD) para parceiros e beta-testers. A versão beta do Windows Server 2003 for 64-Bit Extended Systems está disponível para download na MSDN e estará disponível para o público em geral em breve.
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released to some customers a beta version of its Windows Server 2003 operating system for systems using Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s 64-bit Opteron chip.
The beta version of Windows Server 2003 for 64-Bit Extended Systems is available now to MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers and will be available "soon" to the general public, said Dennis Oldroyd, a director in Microsoft's Windows Server Group. When it ships sometime in the second half of calendar year 2004, Windows Server 2003 for 64-Bit Extended Systems will be available in Standard and Enterprise editions, Oldroyd said. There are no plans right now to make a Datacenter edition.
The three general editions of Windows Server 2003 are Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter, with the first one being the simplest and the last one being the most sophisticated and robust. Unlike the other two, Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2003 aren't sold as standalone products, but rather bundled with systems from hardware makers. Right now there aren't any hardware vendors planning a server running Opteron and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter edition, he said.
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