Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows
by gurkendoktor on Friday November 23, 2012 @07:25AM
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No doubts about the advantages of x86_64, I would insist on it in a new computer for virtualisation and encoding DVDs. But many people don't do much more on their computers than they can do on their highly restricted armv7 gadgets. Desktop software has reached a plateau IMHO, I don't think we can extrapolate from the 16->32 bit change. Gamers and IT professionals are a completely different beast of course.
How do you know that people hate change? Has anyone ever said "no, I don't want to run a 64-bit program, I've always been a 32-bit person"? People have to endure the crap in my grandparent post and that is what they hate and resist, especially if there is no tangible benefit to it. SSDs have entered the mainstream market much later and I have seen nothing but praise for them. SSDs are change too, often a painful one for a running system, but they solve an obvious problem.
How do you know that people hate change? Has anyone ever said "no, I don't want to run a 64-bit program, I've always been a 32-bit person"? People have to endure the crap in my grandparent post and that is what they hate and resist, especially if there is no tangible benefit to it. SSDs have entered the mainstream market much later and I have seen nothing but praise for them. SSDs are change too, often a painful one for a running system, but they solve an obvious problem.