1 Reply by rekabis

(101 replies, posted in Feature Requests)

I just checked my client list… seems I was a bit conservative. Make that about 300 clients with XP 64-bit to date. I usually do about a good half-dozen installations per month, and very few of them are still XP 32-bit (usually for older 32-bit hardware or thin clients and netbooks). Yes, I am doing this just part-time, but I do have a steady stream of customers for either new hardware custom-built, or to get rid of Vista entirely.

I should also point out that my request for XP 64-bit tends to be focused on chipset drivers, audio drivers and communication drivers (wireless and LAN). Video card drivers are usually quite easy to obtain, and the rest tends to fall into place with a little bit of research on my part.

I would love to contribute to XP 64-bit, provided my contributions were effective.

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2 Reply by rekabis

(101 replies, posted in Feature Requests)

I should point out that until Vista came out, I was a Micro$oft apologist.

Once the RC came out, I was so disgusted by it, that I promised myself that if it was released with all the problems it had, I would make XP the last version I ever touched. Well, it was released pretty well as it was, and true to promise, I refuse to touch Vista, even for clients. I tell them that they will need to find someone else to handle their problems; that I have a minimum level of quality that I deal with, and that Vista is well beneath that level.

As such, since many new computers have 64-bit processors, and have the ability to accept more than 4Gb of memory (many now even come standard with 4 or 6Gb), I use XP 64-bit almost exclusively.

And yes, that includes client computers.

I now have close to 200 clients with XP 64-bit, and virtually 100% of them love it. The only ones who have ever complained were the ones moving up from Windows 98, mainly because their old 16-bit apps no longer work. Yes, I still do get those kinds of people once in a while.

So please, please provide an XP 64-bit pack or expand the 2000/XP/2003 pack to include as many 64-bit drivers as possible.

XP 64-bit might be “dead�  according to Micro$oft, but there are many people (like me) and many businesses (like mine) who will continue to recommend and install XP 64-bit right up until it is no longer supported (as in, no more patches and updates).

And since Windows 7 appears to be much the same sh*t as Vista (with only minor improvements to performance, and almost NO improvements to the FUGLY and HORRIBLY DESIGNED user interface), it seems that I will be recommending XP 64-bit for a very long time to come.

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