You know we've aleady got the next generation OS over XP available now. That's the 64 bit version of XP, or simple x64 for short.
Granted, only people w/64 bit processors can use it, but figure, Vista is going to require a system upgrade anyway, at least w/the graphics. Granted Vista is going to be available in both 32 and 64 bit, but by the time it comes out, a good precentage of people may have 64 bit processors by then. You can figure that all new OEM systems that ship w/Vista will be 64 bit.
Other than driver support, mainly to do w/printers, x64 works great.
Why not hold off w/Vista, and get it totally fixed once and for all, while in the mean time, start really pushing x64?
It is now just about one year since x64's release, and figure, w/all the talk, that it'll be another year before Vista will come out. That's two years of profits that Microsoft could of been making if they had really started pushing x64. They keep talking about a new OS every two years already.
X64 is a lot closer to Vista than XP is, due to x64 and Vista sharing the same core, that being Windows 2003.
I do wonder why Microsoft even came out w/x64, since they aren't pushing it at all.
This is all just a thought.
Granted, only people w/64 bit processors can use it, but figure, Vista is going to require a system upgrade anyway, at least w/the graphics. Granted Vista is going to be available in both 32 and 64 bit, but by the time it comes out, a good precentage of people may have 64 bit processors by then. You can figure that all new OEM systems that ship w/Vista will be 64 bit.
Other than driver support, mainly to do w/printers, x64 works great.
Why not hold off w/Vista, and get it totally fixed once and for all, while in the mean time, start really pushing x64?
It is now just about one year since x64's release, and figure, w/all the talk, that it'll be another year before Vista will come out. That's two years of profits that Microsoft could of been making if they had really started pushing x64. They keep talking about a new OS every two years already.
X64 is a lot closer to Vista than XP is, due to x64 and Vista sharing the same core, that being Windows 2003.
I do wonder why Microsoft even came out w/x64, since they aren't pushing it at all.
This is all just a thought.