Originally posted by: karstenanderson
odd, i was in a vista tech presentation and when i asked that question they said they vista wouldn't be like that
Originally posted by: PING
Pdawg1717, looks like Vista contains both 32-bit and 64-bit in one DVD.
Found this
link from a
MSDN blog.
Hmm thanks to the person who provided that link, though I do see that it's a bit
old (may 2006 IIRC).
My personal preferences would be that they'd just optionally install BOTH 32 and 64 bit
codes on the same machine and then they'd be activated as the same 'product' and
same 'machine' and it'd just be a boot time option as to which mode you'd want to
boot into. That way if you had to play games or do something needing hardware
with no good 64 bit driver, you could reboot to 32 bit, otherwise you could enjoy
the hopefully better performance / security of 64 bit mode.
Alternatively I'd certainly want to be able to create a pair of 3GB partitions and install
32 bit vista to one, 64 bit vista to the other, and selectively dual-boot depending on
my needs and have the activation system be smart enough to realize that it's
the same activation / machine and that it's just a case of someone prefering 64bit
but needing to occasionally run 32 bit for hardware / software compatibility / testing
reasons....
It's totally NUTS that you can't (if a comment I've read is true) "upgrade" from 32 bit
XP to 64 bit Vista since you couldn't even choose to BUY 64 bit vista when the
currently popular 64bit CPUs were introduced, so it's hardly the customer's falut
for not running XP64 since that was never even AVAILABLE as a consumer product
when many of us bought our 64 bit machines, and even after they introduced it
as a product it wasn't made available to consumers for XP HOME nor was it really
"usable" due to all the sw/hw incompatibility anyway!
EDIT: I mean to say you ought to be able to use any "upgrade" edition key of vista
with 64 or 32 bit mode installation coming from any XP 32 or 64 installation.
Even if you can't do an "in place" upgrade from 32 to 64, only a clean install...