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...once Vista 64 becomes Microsoft's main interest?
I've heard worrying rumours - and just when I though XP64 was the way to go...
Will we have driver support for all our apps in the years to come?
I'm planning a 64 bit upgrade - very confusing times...
Mike.
I was hoping you'd respond DG - I know you are using XP64 successfully on a slave via FXT (for some time, I think) - so I value your input.
I hear what you're saying, but just as we've had many years of great use of XP Pro, I was (naively?) hoping for the same with XP64.
The solution, I guess, is to limit the use of XP64 to a slave PC exclusively running Vienna Instruments within a native 64 bit host like VE.
That should be pretty future-proof as far as drivers, etc. are concerned.
Mike.
I've been facing the same decision. Like you say, it seems that if you're using dedicated slaves, you'd be able to keep xp64 on them for quite some time to the future. Isn't XP64 only available as OEM? Would you have to buy a piece of hardware in order to get XP64? I know you can download a 120 day trial (which is quite a long time for a trial). But can you then authorize that trial?
On the other hand, if you have the dedicated slaves running Vista, and the only thing you're running on the slaves is VSL -- maybe that would work fine without hiccups.
Mahlon
as you might have already noticed i'm not the biggest fan of VISTA at all ...its using too much RAM and comes with too many bells and whistles for my taste ...
as usually i'd guess like everything from MS gets usable with a *3* in it's name (windows 3.11, windows 2000 SP3, ect) ... ok, its getting better, XP SP2 is ok ...
my strategy would be the following: have 2 disks, partition both into 32-48 GB primary partition and the rest, install XP64 into the first partition of the second harddisk (boot loader remains on disk 1), install VISTA64 into first partition of disk 1.
now you have a dual boot system and whenever you decide you could wipe XP64 without having to change anything but deleting one entry from the boot loader..
AFAIK you are always allowed to downgrade one version with MS operating systems, so you would actually be covered with just a VISTA64 license (because you can't run both simultaneously)
christian
