Forget 128-bit Windows 8, 64-bit Windows 7 Yet to Get All the Love.

Forget about the possibility of Windows 8, the next iteration of the Windows operating system planned for 2011 – 2012 getting support for 128-bit processor architectures. Fact is that the translation to 64-bit CPUs is still in full swing, and Windows 7 is yet to get all the love. While 64-bit is the future, 32-bit computers continue to indicate strong resilience. And it is clear that customers continuing to run machines with x86 processors are not necessarily in a hurry to throw their old computers out and buy x64 PCs. The initial hurdles that have managed to plague x64 Windows platforms, including the lack of driver and hardware support and application-compatibility problems, continue to reverberate from the past even after the majority of issues have been dealt with.

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