There's still quite a bit of use in business and manufacturing (embedded, machine controls. etc.). Since it didn't take many resources to keep Win32-bit alive, why not?
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I agree, as far as maintaining a 32-bit version of Windows moving forward. But there will need to be the ability to run 32-bit applications for a very, very long time (as we all know here how long certain things are held on to). But that's a different thing than supporting a 32-bit version of Windows.
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Because it unnecessary, and equipment that isn't upgradable on that specific topic never should have been put into service to begin with. I'm TIRED of this trope, and I'm tired of BS like this in industry. It's not hard to upgrade the CPUs in the heart of a huge machine, if the people that made that machine designed it correctly.
Make better purchasing decisions on huge capital investments, your future literally depends on it.
Hmmm... I think you are out of touch. You need to walk a few years in the corporate world. Capital investment (large machine) purchases are planned for 15-20+ year lives and are millions of dollars. Obviously Microsoft knows to support this.
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It's not Microsoft's fault nor job in this space, it's whomever you bought the machine from. Their engineering is crap if it cannot handle a complete logic circuit replacement at the 10 year mark. And said replacement shouldn't be stupid expensive either.
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But things are what they are (and have been, for a very long time now).
Some of these manufacturing machines cost over a million dollars and have service lives of decades. It's no one's fault, really, if the original company that manufactured them have gone belly up (and they often have) and there is no viable option for upgrading the "command and control" structure, which often relies on out-of-support Microsoft platforms.
There are tech who specialize in dealing with this niche market, and they don't lack for work. And they won't be lacking for work, probably ever.
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@britechguy I understand that. I know the market is what it is. I'm simply saying that it should be utterly unacceptable that a machine that costs that much works that way. It's time to adapt or get left behind.
But I suppose that would require someone to make equivalent machines that aren't so poorly designed.
But I suppose that would require someone to make equivalent machines that aren't so poorly designed.
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And you don't seem to appreciate that, for many of these things, there is nothing to adapt to as far as what the actual machinery does. The newer stuff for a lot of basic manufacturing is not, in any way, necessarily better, superior, however you want to phrase it.
There is nothing whatsoever wrong with wanting to keep fully functional and productive machinery running without the need to buy new or adapt. If you've got a 50 year old device that does exactly what you need it to do it's utterly irrational, not to mention wasteful, to chuck it because it used the technology that was state of the art when it was born.
There are many who seek out certain "vintage" equipment because it's vastly superior to what's available now. And there is a cottage industry dedicated to the care and feeding of that in-demand vintage equipment.
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