(corporate customers can download it from Cisco’s Web site).
Cisco has released a beta version of its 32-bit client, version 5. When I last wrote about it, Cisco had told me the company was not going to do a version of the IPSEC client for Windows 7, instead promoting its An圜onnect SSL solution. On the VPN front, the older Cisco VPN Client (IPSEC) was a pain to get running even on 32-bit Windows 7, though I was able to use the existing 5.0 version by following a workaround I found at. But again, the 32-bit version works just fine on the 64-bit version of Windows. (In practice, you’re unlikely to see many other differences, though the 64-bit version adds some more security features.) Firefox is generally available only in a 32-bit version, though there are some sites with 64-bit versions out there. For now, the answer is pretty simple: Windows 7 defaults to the 32-bit browser though there’s a simple menu item to bring up the 64-bit version. As it turns out, there’s good news and bad news.įirst, regarding Adobe Flash, the company continues to say it is working on 64-bit versions of its Flash Player 10 for both Windows and Mac. As I said the last time I wrote about it, my biggest questions centered on Flash for the 64-bit browser and VPN clients I was also worried about NaturallySpeaking, but now there’s a good 64-bit version of that. As a result, many of the issues caused by a lack of drivers that early users encountered have been addressed.
That’s why, even with Windows Vista, any consumer PC you were likely to buy with 4GB came with the 64-bit version. (In practice, though, I haven’t seen any real advantage here for anything but very large database applications, and you’re likely to be running those on a server anyway.) 64-bit computing also offers the potential of somewhat faster performance, since it would take better advantage of the 64-bit processors that are now standard in today’s personal computers. 32-bit operating systems max out at 4GB of memory, and that includes the memory used by components such as graphics cards. Indeed, the first 64-bit version of Windows was a version of XP released more than 4 years ago.Ħ4-bit computing has one major and obvious advantage: It supports more memory.
That’s not saying all that much, since Windows is already in a 64-bit version, nearly all current server operating systems are 64-bit, and the current version of Mac OS ships with a 64-bit mode as well. Terms of use.Īs I think about the hardware technologies that Windows 7 is likely to usher in, one of the most obvious is that 64-bit computing is going to become the standard.
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