On 2/13/2014 7:20 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
as far as I can see, there's no reason for Microsoft to even be selling a 32- bit version of their OS anymore, since 32-bit programs will run on the 64-bit version, and 32-bit x86 chips aren't produced anymore. They've all been 64-bit for years now. So, even if someone has a lower end machine that has less than 4GB, I see no reason to run a 32-bit OS on it.
Last I heard, Intel still manufactures a metric shit-ton of chips that deliberately lack hardware virtualization (my machine's not even a couple years old and it uses one of those chips). So running VMed Windows (VirtualBox, etc) would be impossible on those machines without a 32-bit Windows.
