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More -Late last week, Microsoft published data from market researchers showing that nearly half of all Windows 7 PCs worldwide are running a 64-bit version of the OS. That's a dramatic increase from previous Windows versions: Only 11 percent of the Windows Vista installed base—and less than 1 percent of Windows —is 64-bit.
"As of June 2010, we see that 46 percent of all PCs worldwide running Windows 7 are running a 64-bit edition of Windows 7," a post to the Windows team blog reads. "That is, nearly half of all PCs running Windows 7 are running 64-bit."
Microsoft has already moved its server OSs to 64-bit, and it's widely thought that with Windows 8—the next client version of Windows due in two years—the software giant might finally jettison 32-bit code for good on the PC desktop, as well. Still, 64-bit versions of Windows on the desktop offer few meaningful advantages over 32-bit versions, aside from support for dramatically more memory. Whereas 32-bit systems can utilize up to 4GB of RAM (actually a bit less in Windows), 64-bit systems can utilize a lot more. For example, Windows 7 Professional and higher can address up to 192GB of RAM.
Microsoft Touts 64-Bit Adoption of Windows 7
I hope it's that way, it only makes sense, thus the problem MS sometimes doesn't.
We have 'pretty good' SSDs now
Agreed, it wouldn't make any kind of business sense to go totally cloud based.
Improved cloud based I can see for the appropriate areas. The internet just couldn't handle it, especially in some global areas.