Originally Posted by zaroba

who says that these people with the old 32 bit hardware have to try and install these new 64bit operating systems on there 32bit computers? they could just stick with there old 32 bit operating system and run 32 bit programs. theres even still people useing windows 98 on pentium 3s out there. there comes a time when you have to upgrade. if you can't then you get left behind with the old hardware that you have. how do you think computers have advanced all these years? it wasn't by constantly supporting old technology instead of moving into new technologies. if you think OSs should constantly support old technology instead of moving to new technology, then wheres that 16bit version of XP or 98? 16bit got left behind after 32 bit was released. just like 32bit should be now that 64bit is out.

if old 32 bit hardware is constantly being supported, then people wont see much of a need to upgrade to 64bit and thus deveolpers wont see the need to support it at all. and thats where we are currently, more then a year after the release of 64bit hardware and OSs and theres still not much program or driver support for them. geeze....more then a year already, its already old.