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Yep...the Old Homestead Ant Farm, and it is a Sweet Deal!DarkAssasin said:
I would be shocked actually, if MS makes Win8 (or whatever they call it) in a 32bit version, unless it's in a very limited edition for special circumstances and not publicly available. Somehting like our Fire Dispatch Mangmt system which runs completely sandboxed from the world and is not expected to be written for 64bit code until 2012. (too complex and too expensive). It's run on dedicated XP Pro boxes now but if the City were to want to upgrade these machines and their underlying OS, they would have to be 32bit. MS would have to have allot of customers in this same boat before they'd do it, but I could envision such a scenario.
They were so set on this OS release being 64bit only that I can't see them making such concessions again. Too much overhead in the engineering aspect as well as resources to have a 32bit layer for compatibility, it's so much easier & cheaper to just force the 64bit switch along as quickly as possible and I can't see MS holding out after W7.