Read more.Windows Vista's six editions have been blamed for causing consumer confusion, but will Windows 7 follow a similar trend?
Read more.Windows Vista's six editions have been blamed for causing consumer confusion, but will Windows 7 follow a similar trend?
Of course there will be a number of editions.......else they can't fleece people who need domain access.
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Will the be 32 and 64 bit flavours as well or are they going to dump 32bit this time round so manufacturers have to sort out drivers which work under the 64bit OS or else they can't slap a Windows 7 compatible sticker on the side!
And anyone with a main computer and a laptop might find Remote Desktop a worthwhile feature, but if they follow in Vista's footsteps, it won't be available to the average customer.
As someone who has a high-spec desktop and a low-spec laptop from a few years ago, I regularly Remote Desktop to my main computer (in my bedroom) using my laptop (in my living room). Means I get no performance hit from having multiple applications open, and can run more powerful programs, with the comfort and sociability of being in the living room. But I was forced to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate to take advantage of this because Microsoft, in their wisdom, decided it was purely a business feature, and did not include it in Home Premium; a pain, since I use no other features of Ultimate that aren't in Premium.
/rant
speaking totally fictional (i think), id also prfer 64 bit only, means less work for developers of software not having to code twice and its about time we all moved forward...
but does some software nowadays not even work on 64bit? gonna alienate alot of people especially companies in the chance they upgrade or cant upgrade since thier 1997 (or whatever year ) software doesnt work..
There probably won't be any major push to drop 32-bit support until Netbooks have 64-bit processors.
Its the Driver Protection bit that cracks me up.
Basically they can say a big FU to NVidia and the like who cause so many BSODs with their drivers. Simple disable them.
throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)
The only software which should have any issues running on 64bit are those with 16bit components.
Microsoft was trying to get developers to move away from 16 bit code as far back as 1995.....The only thing I have tried installing that has failed on a 64bit OS was "Monkey Island 4" which I tried to install on XP64.....that was around 3 years ago and the game was already around 5 years old at that point!
There are still a few apps that work at a very low-level that have issues but that's mainly because they try and install a device driver of some description....and do not have 64bit ones available.
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
Surely MS would be criticized no matter what they do?
Release one edition and people will complain they are paying for features they don't use, release many and people complain they are being fleeced for that single enterprise level feature they happen to use.
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