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Office 14 to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors

Brad Sams
24 March 2009 - 12:02
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Beta releases have become a great way to discover potentialy unannounced products by snooping around in the files that accompany the beta. Ed Bott did said snooping and is now claiming that Office 14 will ship in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.

Located within the Migwiz.xml file shows the code extensions that prove that a 64-bit version does exist.

This is great news for users that can take advantage of the 64-bit flavor and should come as welcomed news that Microsoft is expanding support for 64-bit. One day soon we will hopefully be able to drop 32-bit forever.

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  1. majortom1981 - 24 March 2009 - 12:28

    All i need now is either a 64bit flash plugin

  2. Slugsie - 24 March 2009 - 13:26

    majortom1981 said,
    All i need now is either a 64bit flash plugin

    Yup, I can't believe that Adobe haven't been able to create a 64bit version yet. I'm really not a fan of Adobe at all.

  3. zeke009 - 24 March 2009 - 14:50

    Slugsie said,
    Yup, I can't believe that Adobe haven't been able to create a 64bit version yet. I'm really not a fan of Adobe at all.
    Didn't they drag their heals on releasing 64bit versions of their flagship applications as well?

  4. dimithrak - 24 March 2009 - 15:08

    Slugsie said,
    Yup, I can't believe that Adobe haven't been able to create a 64bit version yet. I'm really not a fan of Adobe at all.

    Ever since Adobe took over flash.. the program itself has gone to the dogs.. the amount of resources it takes just to run certain flash sites are absurd.. wonder how flash fairs on the Windows Mobile Platform..

  5. Daniel Wired - 24 March 2009 - 18:22

    dimithrak said,
    Ever since Adobe took over flash.. the program itself has gone to the dogs..

    I'm glad i'm not the only one that feels that way

  6. cybertimber2008 - 24 March 2009 - 21:48

    dimithrak said,
    Ever since Adobe took over flash.. the program itself has gone to the dogs.. the amount of resources it takes just to run certain flash sites are absurd.. wonder how flash fairs on the Windows Mobile Platform..

    Well lets see... it's supported in WM 6.1.4 (w/ PIE6) which has an entirely different hardware requirement so I'm gonna say... it's taxing.

  7. Ytterbium - 24 March 2009 - 12:51

    isn't this just that migration of the settings on a x64 platform wouldn't be the same?

  8. opensuse - 24 March 2009 - 12:53

    I guess 4GB of RAM isn't good enough for running Office anymore

  9. GP007 - 24 March 2009 - 13:15

    Office isn't just Word or Exel you know. And just because we're talking 64bit code you shouldn't automatically think it's just about using more RAM.

  10. kinetix63 - 24 March 2009 - 13:25

    GP007 said,
    Office isn't just Word or Exel you know. And just because we're talking 64bit code you shouldn't automatically think it's just about using more RAM.

    Indeed - 64 bit processing would help an awful lot with more complex calculations in Excel, and queries in Access.

  11. tonyunreal - 24 March 2009 - 13:48

    A standard 32-bit process only has access to 2GB of physical memory.

  12. alpha_omega - 24 March 2009 - 14:04

    tonyunreal said,
    A standard 32-bit process only has access to 2GB of physical memory.

    It's "address space", not "physical memory".

  13. ReDFoX2200 - 24 March 2009 - 14:20

    alpha_omega said,
    It's "address space", not "physical memory".

    What I know is that 32bit has can address of 4 GB of memory
    2^32
    but remember that should be total addressed memory
    GPU memory + system memory + hardware address should alway be less or equal 4 GB

  14. GP007 - 24 March 2009 - 14:43

    My point was that going 64bit isn't just about being able to use way more RAM. It's not that any of the office apps actually need more than 4GB or even 4GB itself.

    64bit will let you bang out data faster, and more complex data at that. It's more of an overall performance gain period and less about being able to access more memory.

  15. +Shadrack - 24 March 2009 - 17:12

    GP007 said,
    My point was that going 64bit isn't just about being able to use way more RAM. It's not that any of the office apps actually need more than 4GB or even 4GB itself.

    64bit will let you bang out data faster, and more complex data at that. It's more of an overall performance gain period and less about being able to access more memory.

    Although the ability to access more memory is a big bonus IMHO!

  16. Solid Knight - 24 March 2009 - 21:03

    Well if you can access more memory then you need to find a way to fill it.

  17. _dandy_ - 26 March 2009 - 14:11

    kinetix63 said,
    Indeed - 64 bit processing would help an awful lot with more complex calculations in Excel, and queries in Access.


    If you need a 64-bit Access, Access shouldn't be your database of choice to begin with.

  18. =NickJ= - 26 March 2009 - 23:28

    _dandy_ said,
    If you need a 64-bit Access, Access shouldn't be your database of choice to begin with.

    haha very good point

  19. Macalicious - 27 March 2009 - 03:17

    =NickJ= said,
    haha very good point

    I wish it were the case but it reminds me of the ISP I was at and they used access for their backend for their website so customers could check their account balance etc.

    It truly is a disgusting database; people wonder why I prefer using 4D on the Mac over Access.

  20. Macalicious - 27 March 2009 - 03:19

    redfox2200 said,
    What I know is that 32bit has can address of 4 GB of memory
    2^32
    but remember that should be total addressed memory
    GPU memory + system memory + hardware address should alway be less or equal 4 GB

    Then there is the split between kernel/user memory; normally along the lines of 2 gb of user space and 1gb of kernel

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