Microsoft is to ship the McKinley version of its 64-bit .NET Server preview software to PC manufacturers later this month. It being tagged Microsoft Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition version 1.2, one can reasonably conclude that it is not finished as such, but if we"re going to provide software for Intel hardware as soon as it"s out (which is what we"ve said we"ll do, isn"t it?) then LE it has to be.
This edition, though, is "based on the same 64-bit development code that will be delivered in the Windows .NET Server family," while the earlier Itanium LE version, which shipped (or not, depending on how you interpret Limited Edition) last year, was based on Windows 2000.