Half of Windows 7 Machines Running 64-Bit Version

nk497 writes "Microsoft has said that nearly half of machines running Windows 7 are using the 64-bit version, up from just 11% of PCs running Vista. The 32-bit version is limited to 4GB RAM, while the 64-bit version allows 192GB, as well as added security and virtualization capabilities. While Microsoft is pushing 64-bit as a way to gain performance in the OS, it earlier this year advised users to install the 32-bit version of Office 2010, 'because currently many common add-ins for Office will not function in the 64-bit edition.'"

Comments

Re:Incoming incessant sopssa trolling.

[binarylarry]

I hate Sopssa as much as the next guy but does he even post here anymore?

Maybe he finally wandered back to join his herd at channel9.

Doesn't matter for applications though

[SuperKendall]

To be fair, OS X hasn't really fully transitioned people to 64-bits. Yes, the OS supports it, but the 64-bit kernel isn't even enabled by default.

But that doesn't matter for applications, 64-bit applications run fine regardless of the kernel being started in 64-bit mode or not. So lots of OS X users are using a lot of 64-bit applications already.