Windows 64-bit Installs Jump From 11 Percent (Vista) to 46 Percent (Windows 7)

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Windows 7's 64-bit adoption contrasts sharply with lackluster Windows Vista 64-bit adoption

With the rise of memory hungry applications like browsers with rich web content, DirectX 11/OpenGL video games, and an ever expanding wealth of business software, the time for 64-bit software is obviously now. Some companies -- like Apple -- heeded the call early. Others like Adobe (Flash), have yet to make a move on many flagship products. But Microsoft may just convince those laggards to act, with the success of Windows 7 64-bit edition.

Early numbers from video game download service Valve indicated Windows 7 64-bit adoption to be quite high. On Thursday, Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc confirmed these numbers, reporting that as of June 2010 46 percent of Windows 7 installs were 64-bit. This number is dramatically high, when compared to Windows Vista, which had only 11 percent 64-bit installs, or Windows XP, which had less than 1 percent 64-bit installs.

The biggest advantage of the leap to 64-bit is the increase in the amount of addressable memory. 32-bit systems can only address up to 4 GB. With 64-bit Windows 7 up to 192 GB of memory is addressable.

One key factor to adoption was Microsoft's insistence that hardware partners make their devices compatible with the 64-bit version of Windows 7. Writes LeBlanc:

Through the Windows Logo Program (the “Compatible with Windows 7" logo today), hardware partners are required to develop 64-bit drivers for their devices and software partners are required to have their applications compatible with 64-bit Windows 7. This groundwork was laid with the Windows Logo Program for Windows Vista and carries through to today with Windows 7.

Businesses are loving Windows 7 64-bit -- in fact Gartner predicts that by 2014 75 percent of business PCs will be running a 64-bit edition of Windows. Intel, which opted out of the "Vista experience", recently completed a massive adoption [PDF] of 64-bit Windows 7 and has loved the results thus far.

Windows 7 is the fastest-selling operating system in world history. Even as Windows 7 looks to pass Windows XP to become the best-selling operating system in history, Microsoft is reportedly hard at work on Windows 8, which may see a 2011 release. The company is also preparing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for public consumption.
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Yeah, it's much better using an ancient OS instead...

Microsoft OS's have always been released every 3 years, Vista was the the only problem in their release cycle because they tried to do too much in 1 OS version and it backfired.
 
Hotwired said:
Data from gamers :/

Glad I didn't upgrade to an OS which looks to be out for only two years.

Onward faithful XP 32 bit.
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Don't be foolish 8 will be the one to skip ;) until SP2 at least

win9 will be the next good one according to historical data

95 crap
98 good
me crap
xp good
vista crap
7 good
8..... who knows, maybe they will break the trend


btw i actually liked vista but general opinion was against it
 
But vista was not crap. It was better than XP, just the media took an instant hate to it, bashed MS all over and because of that and the bugs in the BETA stage, it did poorly.

I ran Vista from the start and had less problems with it than XP. It ran faster. The problem was the 64-bit support for apps and hardware was poorer than it should have been. Not MS fault!

Windows 7 is better than vista.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Don't be foolish 8 will be the one to skip ;) until SP2 at least

win9 will be the next good one according to historical data

95 crap
98 good
me crap
xp good
vista crap
7 good
8..... who knows, maybe they will break the trend


btw i actually liked vista but general opinion was against it
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Where would Windows 2000 fit in that list?
 
A lot of off the shelf PCs are coming with 64 bit Windows 7 preinstalled - something that very rarely happened with Vista. I'd imagine this contributes to a large proportion of these 64-bit machines.
 
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