Most people don't care about 64 bit, especially because most programs are still not written by Microsoft, and will not be available in 64 bit for a time being.
I have seen no 64-bit advertisement for Microsoft Office, Corel's office suite etc., and in fact, not even an announcement. People really don't care. It's the same with our customers, they don't ask for 64-bit.
Many software development tools are not there yet for 64-bit. This accounts for Delphi, and as far as I know, also for Visual Basic.
If the customer wants the existing programs to go faster, the software developer can think about whether it should be done by changing the software, upgrading the hardware to faster 32 bit, or by reprogramming to 64 bit. In the Windows case, most people will try to upgrade to faster hardware for 32-bit software first.
But but but: In the Linux case, most of the software we have written already today compiles into 64 bit. And that is why 64-bit is a nearby option for Linux software right away, whereas Windows is at least a year behind, probably two. |
