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The end of 32-bit Windows is nigh!

Microsoft uses its WinHEC 2007 conference to announce a very dull new name for Longhorn Server, bury the 32-bit OS and turn attention towards 64-bit and multicore development.

By Simon Bisson in Los Angeles, 17 May 2007 at 18:13

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Laing also unveiled more details of Windows Server 2008, including a new set of tools for handling hardware errors called the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA). In a demonstration this was used to transfer operations from one hardware partition to another - with minimal interruption to services.

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