Windows Vista is an evolutionary move rather than a revolutionary one. Microsoft has been very public about how it changed its own internal development style to create Vistas new architecture. Vista comes at a time when the industry is making the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing. Microsoft’s huge partner ecosystem for Windows limits its ability to make drastic changes to its OS. Analyst: Microsoft hopes Vista will be the last packaged version of Windows client OS to come in a 32 bit version.”]
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