Eventually all versions of Windows following the next will be 64bit. Microsoft announced plans to abandon 32bit releases in one article seen lately. The eventual move to 64bit is taking far longer then seen when simply jumping from the 16bit versions of 3.1, 3.11 for networking, and 95 to first see NT 3.1 and then 98 being the 32bit versions then.
The market currently is still remaining 32bit for the most part while far more driver support is now being seen for Vista over the initial XP Pro edition saw. Stability with good driver sets will be what gives the 64bit versions the advantages like 32 saw over 16bit then. Plus foloowing 98 you could run more memory on a Windows machine.
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