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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's a heck of a lot of legacy software and hardware out there. Making as much as possible of that run unchanged on Vista is clearly a key commercial requirement.
Vista 64 was never meant for the mass market, and hence could afford to be rather more "radical".
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That's the problem. It should have been "meant" for the mass market. Pretty much any 32-bit app that runs on Vista32 will run on Vista64-bit (except drivers). With the new driver model most drivers had to be re-done for Vista anyway.
Getting an app to run under Vista is more about the new security stuff than any thing else. The WOW64 subsystem runs the 32-bit stuff fin just like the WOW32 in Windows 95 - XP runs the 16bit windows apps just fine. So, the only "legacy apps" that would not run on Vista 64 would be Windows 16-bit apps of which there are very few left.
When you give people a cruch they tend to use it. If all hardware makers had to do 64-bit drivers to sell new hardware they would have done it.
Sorry for the off off topic post!
BOb