Windows for x64 really does run existing applications

Friday, June 18, 2004

I have run the May CTP Whidbey Visual Studio.NET, Mozilla 1.7, OpenOffice, MSN Messenger, and WinZip. What a cool feeling this is. Why am I not running MS Office? Well, I just don't want to go thru the registration hassles. There is a 32 bit of IE that runs along side the 64 bit version of IE. All of this seems to run just fine within the Windows on Windows 64 bit (WOW64) layer.

This is sooooo cool. BTW, I am typing this message up in the 64 bit IE.

I may try installing VS.NET 1.1 for some Winforms development that I am doing. Hopefully, that will work also.

Wally

Gah, pfft on you! I'd like to have Whidbey for Win32, much less Win64! <g>

Brian Schkerke - Friday, June 18, 2004 10:41:00 AM

What kind of hardware/cpu do you have?

Eric

MapPoint - Friday, June 18, 2004 11:04:00 AM

It is a put together system. A shuttle mini case with a shuttle FN85 motherboard. 200 gig sata drive. 1 gig of RAM. It cost $1,130 something bucks. I had to add a $40 usb floppy.

Wallym - Friday, June 18, 2004 11:10:00 AM

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