Originally Posted by
CATIII-NDB
XP's biggest limitation is its Memory address handling.
Microsoft could, if they had so wished, implemented 32 bit physical address extension. As supported by AMD & Intel on the Pentium Pro since mid the nineties.
You're kidding, right?
Did you ever try Windows XP-64? The issue there was not the memory address handling.
Originally Posted by
mad_jock
For the majority of home users they will only change when the computer stops working.
They will not pay to upgrade.
For a lot of small business users this will be the same.
For a lot of Scottish small business users maybe. Personally, i'm down to my last 5 users (all of whom will move to a terminal services solution when their XP desktops die).