64 bit or not.

Hi have a question regarding choice of platform, i hope to find answers. Working with a project, customer wants to upgrade to 64-bit, but the have over 800 applications running today in a old XP environment. Is the best choice really to upgrade to 64bit, when most of the applications wont work?

Need some good advise! Thx

Hi twn444 - Welcome to w7forums

Most of the applications will work.

In fact I am running applications that were designed for Windows 95/98 in Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit. There are literally dozens of threads on this topic within this forum alone.

Are there any other benefits to run 64bit, other the possibility to address more memory to applications?

Faster for video editing, engineering applications and things of that sort. Yes, more memory can be addressed too.

Other than those things or similar, no appreciable difference.

For games, internet browsing, multimedia etc...all the same.

64-bit is here to stay, 32-bit is on it's way out.

I use 16-bit, with Windows for Workgroups 3.11. You can still get stuff done with it.

Almost any 32-bit app that will run on W7 32-bit will also work in 64-bit; only seriously old 16-bit apps may work on 32 but not in 64 w/o emulation/virtual environment.

I guess my question would be, Why would you want to use 3.11? And why are you on a W7 forum if you use 3.11; are you thinking of upgrading? Pretty sure you will need a fresh install ... of hardware and everything

While my computer's a bit out-of-date, I still enjoy using it and like to hear about the new software.

What new software? I don't think there is any new 16-bit software.