Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit
by Olga M. Londer Mike Volordarsky Brett Hill, Bernard Cheah, Steve Schofield, Carlos Aguiar Mares, Kurt Meyer, and Microsoft IIS Team
64-Bit Mode vs. 32-Bit Mode
In general, 64-bit computing has greatly expanded resource limits over 32-bit computing. At first, the limits seem very high compared to 32-bit (x86) computing. Windows Server 2008 offers two 64-bit versions. The x64 platform provides the ability to run 32-bit and 64-bit on the same machine, and this solution is the obvious choice for most server application deployments, whether small or large.
The other type of 64-bit version is an Itanium-based system. IA64 systems are best suited for extremely large database and custom application solutions. For our purposes, the rest of this section discusses x64.
One of the major differences between IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 is that you could run a 32-bit application on a 64-bit machine ...
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