Your claim about the message board threads being deleted is repeated often and always makes people feel like "How dare they!" -- But it not sustainable.
Yes, you can say that the thread was deleted, but people always attach a motive: "Apple doesn't want people to know about this!!!"
Hello? If you look at their forums there are plenty of issues open that sound bad and unfixed. Every time I see a thread get deleted it is because it has become a crybaby fest where someone has seen this problem "all over the Internet." And someone else says, "Apple should do something about this. I can't believe there are thousands of computers out there with this problem!!!" or "Remember when Apple used to care about its customers?"
I mean, seriously. That fact that you find 20 people on the web that had the same problem as you should not be an indicator that this is affecting thousands.
Anyway, once a thread turns into slander than an honest attempt to provide information and seek remedies with a reasonable amount of self control I would delete them off the site too.
In science they would call the motive-assumptions posts like the parent make an inference - and they are often the reason poor results are reached, because the observation (thread was deleted) is given a cause (Apple wants to hide it) without considering other obvious data.
If you check out Microsoft's website they actually group almost all of their information on 64 bit versions of Windows under their server information: http://www.microsoft.com/servers/64bit/faqs.mspx
I couldn't find any substantial information regarding 64 bit processing in their typical Vista and XP pages, so I don't think they consider it ready for mainstream either.
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Your claim about the message board threads being deleted is repeated often and always makes people feel like "How dare they!" -- But it not sustainable. Yes, you can say that the thread was deleted, but people always attach a motive: "Apple doesn't want people to know about this!!!" Hello? If you look at their forums there are plenty of issues open that sound bad and unfixed. Every time I see a thread get deleted it is because it has become a crybaby fest where someone has seen this problem "all over the Internet." And someone else says, "Apple should do something about this. I can't believe there are thousands of computers out there with this problem!!!" or "Remember when Apple used to care about its customers?" I mean, seriously. That fact that you find 20 people on the web that had the same problem as you should not be an indicator that this is affecting thousands. Anyway, once a thread turns into slander than an honest attempt to provide information and seek remedies with a reasonable amount of self control I would delete them off the site too. In science they would call the motive-assumptions posts like the parent make an inference - and they are often the reason poor results are reached, because the observation (thread was deleted) is given a cause (Apple wants to hide it) without considering other obvious data.
I am an Apple fan too, but the article you linked to is about 7 years old. Time to get some new information.
If you check out Microsoft's website they actually group almost all of their information on 64 bit versions of Windows under their server information:
http://www.microsoft.com/servers/64bit/faqs.mspx
I couldn't find any substantial information regarding 64 bit processing in their typical Vista and XP pages, so I don't think they consider it ready for mainstream either.