Yeah well, there are worse traffic jams by virtue of the fact there are more cars on the same roads.
I just played with the latest Acer laptop with touchscreen that my niece brought for my sister in law. From hands on experience it simply felt like an oversized tablet. The 2-3 applications that uses don't feel any different from my Android smartphone. These are Skype, Gmail and Viber. It done properly I am sure it will work. BTW Mr Nadella, who is of Indian origin, has also inherited the genetic reasoning power of Indian to think 10 steps ahead for logical consequences of any action. I am confident he will put it to good use and guide coders to hammer out all possible problems before them happen.
Some stations yes but others no. I have not noticed a significant increase in passengers on the trains. Part of the reason is the introduction of a new high speed route from a station down the line in the country direction so some customers have been siphoned off.
Not a problem on my line. In fact the line was heavily upgraded just over 20 years ago for the Channel Tunnel trains which have been switched to the high speed line. One major factor is that considerable padding has been added to the timetable to give them more recovery time in the event of a delay. For example a train running 3 minutes late from a previous station will often arrive on time. The downside of the padding is that trains often spend quite a while sitting in stations which in turn reduces the capacity of the line.
By 2006 just about any CPU made for desktop use was 64bit. A computer any older than that may or may not be 64bit, but if it is older it shouldn't really be running anything other than XP (for Windows). XP support is out, so there really is no reason to have 32bit support at all. When the computer dies, which it eventually will, it will be replaced with something new (even if new doesn't mean high end components) and they will support 64bit. No reason for the next Windows to have any 32bit support at all.
if your school has old computers then you dont need to be upgrading windows anyway. any new computer from here on will easily be able to handle 64 bit though.
Backwards compatibility. There are a number of programs that are still only available in 32 bit versions.
I'm fairly certain @SNGX1275 was referring to hardware support. An OS being built for 32bit hardware is a bit different than 64bit OS supporting 32bit software. While I see a need in keeping 32bit software compatibility a while longer, I see no need in keeping a 32bit OS. Anything pre-32bit that a 64bit machine no longer supports, can likely be done within a Virtual Machine. And in rare cases where that is not true, it is time to upgrade (loose the dependency) or keep the older machine and OS.
And that's why, boys and girls, every 64 bit copy of Windows 7, has a x86 program folder, for exactly that contingency.
Thats a part of it... to my original post, was in response to the outrage someone suggested 32-bit doesn't need to be in further versions of Windows. I can see how that maybe there could be come confusion between a 32-bit version of Windows 9 or totally dropping 32-bit support. I am supporting the dropping of a 32-bit version of Windows.
Fair point I stand corrected.
What about plug and play? An install doesn't "gen" the os like on a mainfraime.
