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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.'"

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  1. Good by geekoid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This will be another nail in the 32bit coffin.

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    1. Re:Good by parlancex · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Are you retarded? I hear this frequently; "Hey, there's an FOSS equivilent of that app, it just has half the features, a dogshit interface, and barely works at all because it's still being actively developed in an early beta version". An application that "sort kind of kind of barely" does the same thing isn't the same thing as an application that does the same thing. Give me Visual Studio, give me FL Studio, give me 3DSMax on natively on Linux.

    2. Re:Good by joocemann · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Its called the Yamaha Steinberg Driver.

      It works in windows, not linux. Cubase 5 and Kontakt 3 also.

      Like I said, get off me. Quit trying to FOSS hump me. You guys are like vultures man. I use ubuntu daily on my laptop. Will you leave me alone now?

  2. Re:Cue the Linux fanbois... by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linux doesn't "support" customers at all. Debian and Ubuntu have community support lifecycles, and you can buy support from Red Hat or Novell if you want.. but GNU/Linux is just some code, not a service.

    Plus Microsoft isn't abandoning their customers. Windows 2000 extended support lasts through 2010 and XP extended support lasts through 2014. They just want to try to force OEMs to get with it and stop offering 32-bit processors.

  3. Re:Then why... by 644bd346996 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the point of the article is that new computers must be 64-bit capable in order to be advertised as Win7-ready. This is quit different from saying that computers being upgraded need 64-bit capabilities. In fact, Microsoft would be in huge trouble if they made Win7 refuse to install on non-64-bit capable machines, because the "release candidate" runs on machines as old as my 1.5Ghz Athlon XP, and such a drastic change in specs from something called a release candidate might not go over well with the FTC or the EU.

  4. Re:Then why... by pete6677 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    sticker shock from having to spend $800 freaking dollars on an 'HDTV' because of the forced and sudden obsolesence of every TV made before it.

    BS. Nobody had to buy a new TV. If you have cable or satellite your old one kept on working with no changes. Converter boxes were widely available for antenna users and were even subsidized by the government. If you spent $800 on a TV it was because you wanted to, not because you had to.