Two years ago, when Longhorn was announced, Microsoft said that it would be very much based on .Net and the Win32 APIs were going into maintenance mode. Today, that is not the case and some of the Longhorn technologies are being back-ported to XP and Win2K3. However, 64-bit is coming. Here's a paragraph from a blog entry I made yesterday. I was following up on happenings from the PDC...

Thursday’s keynote was Bob Muglia. He announced some new things with Windows Server, including improvements in IIS 7 and Windows Longhorn Server. Two quotes worth noting, “Windows server will move very, very aggressively to 64 bit” and “I really think of 32 bit as legacy”. I’m already on record saying that Windows Vista will be the last 32 bit Operating System from Microsoft.



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>Sorry Rick, but I was just reporting what I had been told by someone who is supposed to be in the know. I haven't actually seen it. I'm sure it will be wonderful after two or three more revisions though.<vbg> There was something also about Longhorn being the same codebase we have been using, as in they scrapped the 64 bit codebase. Know anything about that?