When will Windows 32-bit be discontinued?

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  1. Yen

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    #61 Yen, Jul 2, 2018
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    Hmmm...1 Liter of water = 1000 mg only...must be from outa space.
    No besides of this little mistake when you buy 1 kilogramm ice you get 1 kg water whatever they say.:D
    And you get less than 1000 mL of water, thank god. If It would be different ice would be on the ground of the seas and lakes...

    You ever have to write at least one cluster, but you can allocate far less. And the amount of clusters is limited (64 bit) 2^64−1.

    Kilo = thousand since ages and literally (ancient Greek). To stick to an error is typical for Microsoft. :p
     
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    Exactly,mass is constant volume is not.If you freeze 1kg of water you will get 1kg of ice but with more volume.Conversely if you melt 1kg of ice you will get 1kg of water but with less volume.
     
  3. GOD666

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    #63 GOD666, Jul 2, 2018
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    Could be. I'm not 100% sure who made the motherboard for my Alienware PC, but the motherboard manufacture date reads December 1999 (I recall purchasing it though in 2000/2001) and the CPU reads part #AJ512Z76L1 and came preinstalled with 6 GB of ram at the time. The driver only ever reads "generic CPU" whenever I install Windows on the machine. Currently, I have Linux on the machine and it is what I use for cold storage.
     
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    Obviously intended as g, then wanted to switch to mg but got lazy and did not add the next group of zero's.
    But why are you nitpicking about an imaginary scenario?
    Specially when the imaginary greedy corp is using arbitrary units just like HDD manufacturers did, to confuse the buyer.
    And still in the scenario above, you don't weight their product, you buy by volume. The volume is 1L, but it only holds 920ml water after the de-crystallization procedure (I've used earth ice density at normal pressure and temperature, but since it's a scenario, they could have invented something yielding even less). If that's too sci-fi for you, imagine they squeeze the bottle a little while filling it :D
    Did not even want to mention clusters since it can vary greatly by filesystem. There's also the case of small files that can be stored directly in the MFT.. but you still can't store 2 bits :D
    Dude, I'm just going to pour my end of discussion argument from my space crystallized water 1L=920ml bottle:
    HDD manufactures themselves use 1MB=1'048'576 bytes when it comes to cache size. Not MiB. It's literally MB written on the disk itself.
     
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    #66 John Sutherland, Jul 2, 2018
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    It seems to me that if Microsoft was going to make Windows a 64 bit only OS, they would have already done so with the introduction of Windows 10 back in 2015. Since Windows 10 will continue to be supported until 14 October 2025, I doubt they will drop support for the 32 bit versions until then. Looks like we'll have to wait until Windows 11, or whatever they decide to name the next version, before we see a 64 bit only version of Windows.

    EDIT: I'm going to make a prediction here. If there ever will be a "Windows 11", it will probably be released sometime between the time Windows 7 hits EOL status (14 Jan. 2019) and Windows 8.1 hits EOL status (10 Jan. 2023).
     
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    Perhaps you got a hold of an engineering sample?
     
  7. GOD666

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    Doubtful. Leaked samples were not something as easy to obtain back in those days. Companies took such things a lot more seriously back then and if you were leaking them to consumers you would have been in a lot of legal trouble. -- Not saying companies today don't take such matters seriously, but back in the day, I do recall things being a lot more "locked down". I'd be very surprised if that was the case.
     
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    MS has hundreds of designers and they all need things to do. Every update Windows 10 needs to be completely redesigned. Its like when you to the supermarket and they changed everything up AGAIN and you spend 10 minutes looking for toothpaste.
     
  10. lewcass

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    They aint fit shovel s**t from one place to another.
     
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  11. GOD666

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    I'm confident about the date since the manufacture date is printed on the hardware (December 1999). I'm also confident about my memory since historically, I recall 9/11 pretty well and what I was doing in life before and after that timeline. I can confirm that it is dual-core also since I recall playing games on this computer back in the day. I have Google'd the CPU part #AJ512Z76L1 and honestly turn up nothing at all (zero results). So now I'm curious too. :p
     
  12. a proper app like hwinfo should be able to detect hardware. would you pls boot sergei strelec or run a windows os and check the info with hwinfo app.
     
  13. Yen

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    #76 Yen, Jul 5, 2018
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    Yeah. According to x64CPU history the first dual core was an AMD Athlon 64, but only in 2005....Intel was a bit later? Pentium D.....AFAIK Athlon64 serial number consist of 13 digits, though.

    Any chance to get a picture from the CPU (die)? Or the socket?
     
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    socket 754 i think. I had an athlon 64 3000, 51w. :)
     
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    Most people dont actually buy 800 euros or whatever phones, they get them "free" on their contracts.
     
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  16. Yen

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    The funny thing is that GOD666 info about the CPU actually matches the IBM Power 4 only....year 2001, 64 bit and dual core.
    But those are 'from the other side.....' (Motorola, Amiga, Apple till 2006... etc...)
     
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