Two Questions

[Nick Sabalausky]

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.