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After months of rumors, leaks, and speculation, Windows 8 is finally official on ARM and x86 platforms. Terrific. Now Qualcomm has jumped on Microsoft's coattails with details about the silicon the company will offer to support Microsoft's next generation OS. First on the list is Qualcomm's...

While trying to install the latest (11.5) CCC driver update from AMD, the install failed for the MS Visual C++2010 Redis. When I asked them for advice, they sent a whole list of things I would have to do, and most are too daunting for me to attempt, such as "updating BIOS (Heck, the MSI website...

Hi guys, wondered if you could help me with a little problem I'm having. I need to install Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 (64-bit, SP1). An easy task, you might think. Firstly, there's no download link for Windows 7 on the Microsoft Download page as apparently all Windows 7 installations...

Microsoft has always been known to have numerous variations of its Windows Operating Systems, but now it has thrown a new twist on things with Windows 8 . For years Microsoft's OS has been running on x86-based hardware but now the company is starting to take ARM processors more seriously as it...

Yesterday, Intel senior vice president Renee James spilled some details about Microsoft's next version of Windows, claiming that the ARM version won't run legacy Windows apps (which were designed only to run on Intel's x86 family of processors). Source: Yahoo! News

Intel has confirmed that Windows 8 ARM will not run x86/64 code, meaning it launch with a very small library of apps. Link Removed

For some it may be an obvious thing to state, but Windows 8 on ARM will be a completely blank canvas with no compatibility mode for any software running on previous x86 versions of Windows. If a developer wants an older app to run on Windows 8 ARM, they need to develop a new version [...] Link...

Intel was quick to point out that the ARM version of Windows 8 won't have any backwards compatibility—"Our competitors will not be running legacy applications. Not now. Not ever." But the ol' friendly x86 version? You betcha! More*» Source: Yahoo! News

Hi All Windows 7 Users .. I want to survey Windows 7 SP 1 x64 or x86 SP 1 .. Is there anyone here having problems when using Windows 7 SP 1 ?? I had installed Windows 7 SP 1 X64 in my Notebook .. Still no problem occured .. Hehe ..

Hi All Windows 7 Users .. I want to survey Windows 7 SP 1 x64 or x86 SP 1 .. Is there anyone here having problems when using Windows 7 SP 1 ?? I had installed Windows 7 SP 1 X64 in my Notebook .. Still no problem occured .. Hehe .. :cool: :cool: :cool:

hello, my computer has an amd athlon 64 x2 processor and am2 (i forgot the model) motherboard, and i was able to install windows vista before i noticed that it stinks and installed xp again, then i was trying to install windows 7 (spanish, english, x86, x64, ultimate, home premium, etc), the...

Greetings to All, I have encountered BSOD last night and I attach my crash dump file on this post. This isn't my first BSOD experience but it is my first using Windows 7 Ulitmate X86. I haven't before set out to finding out the cause of BSOD and analyse the problem. So please ingore my noobity...

Big vendors aren't democracies, so when Kevin Armour, the CTO of Paycor Inc., heard last year that Microsoft was ending support for Itanium, he knew he was stuck. "I was a little disappointed," he said of Microsoft's decision, which was made a year ago next month. Armour's three-year-old...

hi everyone, first of all i would like to say i am sorry about my english language, because i write from hungary. i have a brand new laptop (Samsung NP-RV508-A01HU) and i installed a win7 ultimate. the installation was succesfull but after that when it did the first restart the system give...

hi everyone, first of all i would like to say i am sorry about my english language, because i write from hungary. i have a brand new laptop (Samsung NP-RV508-A01HU) and i installed a win7 ultimate. the installation was succesfull but after that when it did the first restart the system give...

hi i have windows 7 ultimate x86 installed but i have problem my motherboard is old and i can't find driver for windows 7 for my ethernet controller (network adapter) the model of the motherboard is intel D845GEBV2 and in intel's site they said that there isn't and never will be driver for this...

Is there a way to change MS Word file icons in Windows 7 x86. Since i know it has been possible on XP under view file options menu, and the same option is not available in 7?

Hello, Do I just start the install and it automatically gets installed to x86 (vista like) or is there a different method ? And if I am running 64 bit Win7 does the application installed endup installed as a 32bit xp app ??

windows 7 youtube freezes... has enyone solved this? i'm using win 7 x86 Thanks

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