Do you think that driver/program support will be better now that..

....VISTA 64 is launching? Or, to ask my question more specifically, do you
think/suspect/believe that drivers & programs that are developed for VISTA 64
in the future will be compatable with WXP x64? Barring, of course, any that
are intended to interact with specific "features" of VISTA 64. Factual
answers & Best Guesses are BOTH welcome.

Thank you gentlemen...

 

Ummm, Vista x64 has been out in beta for awhile. A bit ragged, but it
seems to work okay.

 

x64 Edition is a niche product, and I don't think many vendors will worry
about back porting their drivers to it once Vista is available. In a way,
though, those of us who remember suffering throuth the dearth of drivers for
Windows NT were pretty well delighted by the mainstream acceptance of Win2K
Pro & Server. We should be equally happy to fondly remember how we suffered
with x64 Edition on the way to 64-bit Vista. That's just how it goes.

 

BTW - Prisoner - I am not a number - I am a free man! Yeah!

 

Unlike many who post here regularly, I do not think Vista x64 will help the
driver situation for XP x64. Manufacturer's have to provide both Vista x86
and x64 drivers to get the Vista logo for their products and so Vista x64
will benefit but not XP x64. It takes more than being 64bits for a driver
to work in one system and the other. It would be analogous to Win98 drivers
when XP came out. Nothing really changed for Win98.

 

Colin:
The manufacturers replied to our requests for x64 drivers that they
were waiting for Vista to release drivers for Windows x64. Now that Vista is
nearly ready we will see how much bunk we were fed.

 

Oh yeah..nothing like a hot, steaming bowl of fresh bunk to fill the belly.

Colin: The one big thing that did change was the New Technology file system.
Surely, I would hope, this would in itself lead to more (quantity) compatable
drivers and programs.

M. Murcek: "You won't get it!"
"By hook or by crook, we WILL." How appropo........

Be seeing you.............

 

I am not usually pessimistic, but I am about this one. I foresee the
manufacturers begging off at the end with some nonsense about how XP Pro x64
just never took off. I hope I'm wrong. Having said that, all my peripheral
equipment works with inbox drivers that come with XP Pro x64 so I certainly
have no complaints.