Microsoft Phases Out 32-Bit Support for Windows 10
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sverek
I have a joke about 4,294,967,296 number, but 32-bit users won't get it.
icedman
I thought they already did this years ago but either way this is good to simplify and streamline things.
wavetrex
In other news, cylinder phonographs are no longer the best sound recording apparatus !
Stairmand
While 64bit support has been on the desktop for over 15 years. Many people still use older Atom based devices, (Intels last gen Computestick springs to mind) these only support 32bit Windows.
Anyway, about time, I said at the beginning that Windows 10 should never have shipped a 32bit version.
TheDeeGee
Good, last time i had 32-bit was on XP.
My first 64-bit OS was actually a community stripped down version of Vista, which ran surprisingly well.
maikai
Mine was actually XP, I remember buying it specifically for the Farcry features
Richard Nutman
They need to port every MS windows app to 64bit as well. Every 32bit process is slowing down people's systems.
Exodite
It's a decade late but you know what they say...
Now they just need to move the 32-bit system and emulation layer to its own sandbox and forget about it.
DEADPOOL3980
I'm still waiting for 128 bit and 256 bit
JuKan
80% of all car diagnostics software still uses 32bit
The Laughing Ma
Extreme memory user here folks 😉
DEADPOOL3980
128 bit operating system is about more than just memory just try using your brain a "bit"
Hey my first operating system was windows 3.1
rl66
Only old one and inexpensive copy are 32 bits, most are in 64 bits (it's part of my hobby lol).
rl66
Mine were MSX Dos
https://lars28.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/msx-dos.gif
At least the 1st one where i enjoyed computer (i had Apple 2 before)
rl66
Of course vinyl are way better !!!
schmidtbag
Those Atoms shouldn't have shipped with 32 bit either. No excuse.
Fender178
What do you mean by every MS App? Are you talking about just Microsoft programs like Office? If you are talking about just office then there are 64 bit versions of Office. Or every 32 bit app made for Windows? If you are talking about every 32 bit App made for Windows and if you are then that is not happening because there is way too may 32 bit programs out there that it would take multiple lifetimes to do. Also there are probably alot of software that can't be ported and also having access to the source code for all those programs might be very difficult because it might be lost and gone forever like the game Diablo 2 for example.
Alessio1989
Please note that WOW64 is not deprecated. 32-bit support is still a thing.
Fender178
Yeah Apple failed to realize this when they release the most recent version of MacOS.
Astyanax
Thats not how any of this works.
infact on 64bit processors using 64bit's can imply REDUCED performance as the datasize can exceed cache.
