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Originally Posted by zaroba
actually...i stand corrected. 64bit has been out since 2004 or so. its already 3 years old!
3 years and STILL only a small amount of driver and program support, probably because people don't use it much because companies insist on continueing to support 32 bit technology and thus developers don't see the need to support 64bit which adds to the reasons people don't use it.
64bit is to 32bit like 32bit was to 16bit.
technology moved on from 16bit to 32bit despite the fact that everybody still had 16bit hardware.
technology has also advanced in hardware despite everybody having old hardware. ISA -> PCI -> PCI/AGP -> PCIE
why do people/companies not want to move to 64bit now that it is out?
its time to get out of the 32bit era.
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The reason is because the only consumer 64-Bit OS was Windows Pro x64, which besides being a 64-bit OS, offered nothing new. So there was no reason for people to upgrade, which resulted in a very low percentage of people having it, which then resulted in very limited driver support.
Windows Vista x64 should change all that.