Sixty four bit computing, has been around since the beginning of computing, but it wasn’t in the mainstream consumer marketplace until just a few years ago, while AMD announced AMD64 almost adecade ago. Getting the rest of the market to join up was aided by Intel’s own implementation called Intel® 64. From there, you needed an operating system that supported the technology and applications that were compatible to take advantage of it. Before Windows® Vista and OS X 10.6, that was hard to come by. You’ve probably seen that Windows® 7 comes in 32 and 64-bit version and wondered what the difference is.  Even now, I’m still surprised at how long it’s taken to convert everyone over.

These articles are on my perceived knowledge of Windows and about 6+ years of experience with Operating Systems as a user and troubleshooter. Performance specs were not taken with these articles, unfortunately, so accuracy is sketchy at best without numbers.

“If you run into a problem with Windows Mail in Vista where a message is stuck in the Outbox, won’t send, and returns an unknown error when trying to delete…WMUTIL is the answer.  This tool gives you the ability to clear the outbox with push of a single button.  It also allows you to repair the Mail database.  It saved me a lot of time today, and maybe this information will help you as well.”

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Microsoft has introduced the Mojave Experiment. What do people think of Windows Vista when they don’t know it’s Vista?

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“The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases). The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it’s time for Vista to sink or swim.”

Ahhhh….Vista sunk a long time ago. To me, it bit the bullet on the performance and stability issues. I still say that XP runs circles around it because XP has been through hell to get where it is now. Of course when it first hit shelves, there were compatibility issues, which continued to improve more and more.

I took Vista off my custom desktop and even worked hard on my laptop to get vista off it because it was preinstalled. Compaq didn’t have official drivers for XP, but after a few hours of digging, I managed to get it together.

Will I move with the fold and put Vista back into action? I doubt it as of right now. My mind and heart are comfortable with XP Service Pack 3.

On the 30th, XP ends. Well, there’s always OSX and Linux!

“Apple marketing has the swinging pair of crabapples to actually print “Leopard Just Works” on its Web site. Hey, at least Microsoft reps have the decency to look a little abashed when you point out their product’s screwups.”

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