Microsoft Announces Windows Server 2003 Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Windows Server 2003 family of products. According to Microsoft, with the Windows Server platform, customers can power Microsoft .NET connected applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the datacenter while deriving more value from their existing IT investments and lowering their overall cost of computing. "As Microsoft's flagship server product, Windows Server 2003 delivers the performance and productivity business customers expect, while maximizing every dollar of their IT investment," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Designed to meet high-end enterprise workloads and levels of demand. Windows Server 2003 is the first Windows server release to support Intel Itanium 64-bit systems. The combination of Windows Server 2003 64-bit edition and SQL Server 2000 (64-bit edition) has achieved world-record database performance results. The Windows Server 2003 family of products includes Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 Web Edition, and Windows Small Business Server 2003.