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"Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit

Posted by Soulskill on from the set-course-for-debacletown dept.

Barence writes "Microsoft has started certifying PCs as 'compatible with Windows 7' — and is looking to avoid the mistakes that dogged the Vista-Capable scheme. Whereas Microsoft certified PCs that could only run Vista Home Basic last time around, this time PCs will have to work with all versions of Windows 7 to qualify for the sticker, including 64-bit versions of the OS. Microsoft also claims, 'products that receive the logo are checked for common issues to minimize the number of crashes, hangs, and reboots experienced by the user.'"

8 of 440 comments (clear)

  1. Never did understand... by JustNiz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    why do people with 64 bit hardware still run the 32-bit version of the os?
    Is it just ignorance?

  2. Re:Good by miffo.swe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Windows 7 IS Windows Vista.

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  3. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's about frikkin time! 64 bit hardware for years, 32 bit OS and applications why???

    Because you're a tard running Windows.

    That sound you hear is the rest of us laughing at you.

  4. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Funny thing, MS said vista was the last windows to have a 32bit version back when they released it

    Correct - so Windows Vista Second Edition still has a 32bit version (I think Marketing calls it Windows 7 or something).

  5. No Linux support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What good is this OS then if the Penguin won't even take my tech calls? If Linus isn't willing to support this monstrosity, he needs to halt development.

    Seriously, don't beg me to switch to the Linux if you're not going to support it. That is BAD BUSINESS.

    1. Re:No Linux support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Linux is not a business, in and of itself. Fucktard.

  6. Now see here punk. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I reject your challenge, because you are no challenge. But however I'd be quite happy to destroy your specious vitriol in public. I'm too short to have a long conversation debunking every one of your fallacies, ad hominem attacks and general lunacy, so I'll give you the business short and sweet. SHORT AND SWEET, capiche?

    Now before I dispense with you quicker than Obama and Oprah at an IOC meeting, let it be known I spit out organic tree humpers like you on a daily basis, before breakfast, before I get to the important business of what I do. THIS IS NOT DISPUTABLE.

    Now that you've been hoisted on your petard, keep this in mind before you slink back again for another beating. RUST NEVER SLEEPS.

  7. Re:Good by jedidiah · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > some of the applications I prefer run in windows and there is nothing in the FOSS/OS community to compete with it at all... laugh all you want

    That's a completely empty claim. Why we might laugh about it doesn't matter so much.

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