It was about time, I can rarely see non-64bit capable hardware still going nowadays. Now the only thing remains before proper experience is to drop Windows 7 support. Windows 8.1 are vastly superior to Windows 7 in every aspect for older machines/devices if Windows 10 is a no go due to missing drivers and incompatible hardware. In my old laptop Windows 7 was a stuttery mess, Windows 10 couldn't find my mobile gpu, finally Windows 8.1 provide a butter smooth video playback experience.!

I doubt there are many specific x86 moments in driver source code. So I guess this is just a decrease for test and release teams - less to test and to prepare for release.

warlord:

It was about time, I can rarely see non-64bit capable hardware still going nowadays. Now the only thing remains before proper experience is to drop Windows 7 support. Windows 8.1 are vastly superior to Windows 7 in every aspect for older machines/devices if Windows 10 is a no go due to missing drivers and incompatible hardware. In my old laptop Windows 7 was a stuttery mess, Windows 10 couldn't find my mobile gpu, finally Windows 8.1 provide a butter smooth video playback experience.!

Windows 8.1 is a great version of windows, i use it with Start 8 (to avoid metro interface) and Blackbird, still my favorite OS

This is a good thing, the people still on using 32, aren't people who need the drivers anyways.

AcidSnow:

This is a good thing, the people still on using 32, aren't people who need the drivers anyways.

Totally agree.

I liked Windows Vista because it looked nice with transparency, nice buttons and colourful theme and that one is not supported as well Windows 10 is square shaped not themed as fluently and most of the time looks like toy-story but i like new black file explorer

Raider0001:

I liked Windows Vista because it looked nice with transparency, nice buttons and colourful theme and that one is not supported as well Windows 10 is square shaped not themed as fluently and most of the time looks like toy-story but i like new black file explorer

I'm not sure towards who your comment is directed to, or if it's sarcasm or not

I agree that performance drivers or new features aren't required for 32-bit, but no security updates for possible exploits is a negative. Then again, Nvidia's Legacy support for 32-bit is also going to end in a few months.

heffeque:

I'm not sure towards who your comment is directed to, or if it's sarcasm or not

Maybe he thinks AMD makes Windows?

Spoiler: "Yep!"

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warlord:

Windows 8.1 are vastly superior to Windows 7 in every aspect for older machines/devices if Windows 10 is a no go due to missing drivers and incompatible hardware. In my old laptop Windows 7 was a stuttery mess, Windows 10 couldn't find my mobile gpu, finally Windows 8.1 provide a butter smooth video playback experience.!

Conventional wisdom often does not hold with laptops, unfortunately. Laptops are custom devices using custom-made components that as often as not require custom drivers--and those drivers have to come from your laptop OEM (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc.), as they as a rule are not available from standard component manufacturer websites. What I've seen entirely too much of is laptop manufacturers indicating you'd need to buy another laptop from them if you want Win10 support, etc.... If you had trouble with Windows 10 because of your laptop drivers, it's up to the maker of your laptop to supply them--has nothing to do with Windows 10 itself. That's a big reason I cannot recommend laptops to people who enjoy computer gaming--for gaming, a desktop is the vastly preferred system to use, imo. It's even better if you build your own desktop yourself and cherry pick the components you use, imo. (Spend a little more and only buy from tier 1 hardware OEMs--AMD, nVidia, MSI, etc. Not only will these companies keep you in good drivers for *years* after your retail purchases, through several new OS versions, their retail component warranties are much better, too.) Windows 10 is > three years old, and for my desktop at home I haven't had a problem with drivers, or any other major problems, for > ~two years. Currently I'm on v 1809, build 17763.104--very nice and problem free. (I haven't seen the recently reported erasure errors --from what I could tell reading posts from people so affected--it seemed to be an issue for people using a non-updated version of Onedrive who saw those problems, apparently.)