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"Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit
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.'"
Microsoft like to pretend that Windows and Windows Server are hugely different, rather than that one is crippleware.
One? :)
These posts are irrelevant because windows 7 comes in both 32 and 64-bit versions. The article is just talking about little worthless stickies on cases of computer shit that let dumb people know for sure it will work on windows 7 computers.
If that 486 is still running, it is not possible for you to have cold hands.
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Damn! Next time put a spoiler alert on your post.
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32-bit? Megabytes of RAM? Meh, kids these days.
If an 8-bit computer with 128 kilobytes of RAM is good enough for PC-DOS 3.3, it should be good enough for everything. Office software? Who needs that junk? WYSIWYG is for posers. They can pry EDLIN from my cold, dead fingers. Why, back in my day we *appreciated* the time it took our software to compute results, and the fact that we couldn't do anything else while it was happening. It gave us time to read the manuals while we were waiting! Those were the days...
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Wow, a QUANTUM sowing machine ("it's sew easy") and here we are waiting for quantum computing like idiots when Singer is years ahead of us ! Obviously it exists simultaneously as a 32 and a 64 bit machine, but you won't know which until you connect it.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Unfortunately, the only Office app that NEEDS a 64bit build is Excel (and the database bits of office, which would then require the entire office suite to be 64bit)
64k rows aren't enough for everyone.
Do you know why people burn-out so quickly nowadays? No more coffee-breaks while compiling or waiting for a print-job.
Many office worker happily recharged with a cup of joe listening to the gentle banging of the line printer churning out reams of paper.
Ah, happy days... [puts on MP3 of line-printer]
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
I would like to sound real smug right now at how I run 64bit Firefox with 64bit Flash on my 64bit Linux machine, but the fact remains the same as for 32bit. Flash is badly written, is still an enormous CPU hog on a 64bit system, with an ability to grind a 64bit machine slower than ANY other heavyweight application I've used. The CPU usage of Flash even occasionally manages to beat how much CPU HD-Video (MPEG4 encoded) takes to play back.
After about 2 1/2 years Linux users finally have a new (beta) version of Skype*, but it's STILL not 64 bit. Google, when will they ever get a 64bit version out of GoogleEarth?
Whilst these major projects have waited for Windows to go 64bit, they could have used Linux as their "test bed", more knowledgeable users and a "free" testing base. Instead they choose to wait and wait for Windows.
* Skype did not improve on the design or layout of the Linux version, despite KDE4 being out a long time now.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
Still compiling your gentoo, eh?