Well TGI*NOT*Friday as I'm sure the answer would be to ensure any COM add-ins loaded weren't written in VB6 ;)
|-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- |[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas |Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 6:09 PM |To: 'ozDotNet' |Subject: [OT] Why IE9 64-bit? | |A Q for Friday. Why would anyone want a 64-bit browser? | |I'm quite content with IE9, and installed the beta some time ago. Firefox- |Opera-CHROME don't interest me now that IE handles MHT file save and load |better, and I'm inclined to agree with David Connors that browsers became ho- |hum a long time ago (well, that's my extension of his remarks about IE and |Netscape). | |Just installed the final IE9 release, and the "beautiful" (ugh) website detected |my 64-bit CPU (I assume) so I downloaded the installer stub and completed the |install for the 64-bit version, but I was reminded by that that both 32-bit and 64- |bit versions are available/installed (for all the IE9 releases I have tried). | |afaik 32-bit is loaded by default by Windows 7, and I can't see that a user would |gain from running the 64-bit version when all 32-bit apps that don't use / |address more RAM function fine with Win7. | |Anyone? | |________________________________ | |Ian Thomas | |Victoria Park, Western Australia
