yeah I know tom, as long as the core libs stay backward compatible I
know a lot of stuff is 32 and 64 right now but eventually 32 bit will die.
A lot still use 32 bit software even on 64 bit systems but you are
right eventually that will change.
At 01:20 AM 4/15/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Well, yes, driver updates will be one complication, but compatibility
will also eventually be another reason to upgrade assuming the person
has a desire to stay current.
A lot of new software is being designed for a 64-bit OS, and while
32-bit versions are still being made available I don't expect that to
remain the case after five years or so. When a certain majority of
developers decide to go straight 64-bit that will effectively be the
death of XP in terms of new games and applications for the OS. If you
want to upgrade to a new version of Microsoft Office, Quicken Deluxe,
or Soundforge Professional after that happens you will have to update
both your hardware and OS at the same time. So XP users will be living
on borrowed time so to speak.
When I look back at how quickly the industry went from 16-bit to
32-bit it happened very very quickly. The last OS to have 16-bit
support was the original release of Windows 95. A year later when the
Intel 32-bit pentiums came out the second version of Windows 95 OS2
was 32-bit. Practically over night games and applications began
switching to 32-bit and by the time Windows 98 came out in 98 new
16-bit apps were rare. It may not happen that quickly this time since
32-bit hardware and software has had longer to take hold, but make no
mistake once all the software and hardware manufacturers decide to
simply stop supporting 32-bit systems people will be forced to upgrade
or be left behind in the dust.
Cheers!
On 4/14/13, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well as long as I have a machine that works or that can have xp I
> won't be going up and if I do it will be 7 that I go to not 8.
> Ofcause once xp stopps hardware manufacturers stop.
> so no drivers for any new stuf.
> Now right now thats probably not to bad, even if they stop next year
> that does mean a lot of new stuff up to i7 etc will still have
> minimal drivers for xp probably.
> but don't hold your life on it.
> my realtech card has not been updated since last year in june and
> sure enough my toshiba laptops I am looking at now don't use realtech
> cards and mostly intel ones.
> So chances are if you want a system that was released up to june
> 2012 you will have realtech cards after that well.
> It was the reason I moved from 98 among other things.
> Well networking was the other thing.
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