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By nosfe on 9/23/2008 2:58:31 PM , Rating: 2
last i checked all of the CS4 was 64bit capable, on windows

RE: Woo Hoo!!
By joex444 on 9/23/2008 3:20:32 PM , Rating: 2
there's no flash player plugin in 64 bit. this is why 64 bit versions of windows use 32 bit internet explorer. you can make an argument for firefox, chrome, opera, what have you -- ultimate fact is >75% of users use IE. it would make more sense to use a 64 bit version of IE but 64 bit windows users cannot do that if the pages they load have flash as there is no plugin. it's been more than a couple years adobe has had to write a 64 bit flash plugin, it can't be that hard.

RE: Woo Hoo!!
By Spivonious on 9/23/2008 3:39:50 PM , Rating: 2
The really annoying thing is that there's no 64-bit version of Silverlight. It's like Microsoft's teams just go off and do their own thing and don't communicate with each other.

RE: Woo Hoo!!
By ebakke on 9/23/2008 5:44:10 PM , Rating: 4

That's likely exactly what happens.

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Microsoft Employee 2: "Where did you hear that?"

Microsoft Employee 1: "DailyTech"


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Employee 1: "Wasnt that your department?"
Employee 2: "I thought it was yours?"
Employee 1: "I'm working on SP4 for winxp"

RE: Woo Hoo!!
By gamerk2 on 9/24/2008 8:46:53 AM , Rating: 2
Why do we need 64-bit versions? Programs should be written to work regardless of the maximum amount of address space, period.

Having seperate versions for every program leads to a decrease in product quality, and an increase in development time. 32-bit is still the most widley used, so make the programs 32-bit, but able to run on 64+-bit machines.

RE: Woo Hoo!!
By Spivonious on 9/24/2008 9:41:04 AM , Rating: 2
Because 32-bit plug-ins don't work in 64-bit browsers.

I forget where I read it, but something like 20% of users are now running 64-bit OSes. That's a huge chunk to ignore.

RE: Woo Hoo!!
By deadrats on 9/24/2008 8:43:38 PM , Rating: 2
because the cpu's are 64 bit (or more accurately hybrid 32/64/128 bit, SSE is 128 bit, on x86-64 architectures); furthermore, the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit cpu's brought us 16 additional registers (8 general purpose and 8 SIMD) on 64 bit cpu's as compared to 32 bit x86 cpu's.

what you should be asking is why are we still stuck with 32 bit OSes and 32 bit applications when the x86 architecture has moved to a 64 bit capable world.

if you have any doubts as to the benefit of 64 bit applications, download and install (on a spare hdd) a 32 bit and a 64 bit linux distro, say the latest fedora, where all the included apps are also compiled in 64 bit and then you will see why we should be demanding 64bit apps on 64bit OSes exclusively.

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