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Someone here has to be in IT for a construction company, if so you may recognize the two products listed in the header, Timberline and Expedition construction management software, of course none of these guys ever buy new editions, or have "borrowed" it from someone else.
Anyway, I have a customer using older 32 bit versions of these two pieces of software. (actually neither product probably has a 64 bit version, I have not checked, but even if they do I doubt the customer would buy it when what they have does the job).
With that said is it even worth the upgrade to Windows 7 if you are using the 32 bit version? or should I just go with old reliable XP? The reason I ask is I need to get these people new notebooks, and am probably going with Dell, I can get the "Windows 7 with XP downgrade" and then I will have XP and a 32 bit version of Windows 7 I can install at a later date. again with Windows 7 being 32 bit I am assuming these old apps will run on it, but there is no benefit of anything over about 3 gig of RAM and all that....I really wish I could have the best of both worlds, 64 bit OS, with a 32 bit mode?? Does that exist? Seems to me i saw something like that somewhere....Then I could have all the hardware advantages, and still run old 32 bit apps.
Opinions? PLEASE?
TIA
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Anyway, I have a customer using older 32 bit versions of these two pieces of software. (actually neither product probably has a 64 bit version, I have not checked, but even if they do I doubt the customer would buy it when what they have does the job).
With that said is it even worth the upgrade to Windows 7 if you are using the 32 bit version? or should I just go with old reliable XP? The reason I ask is I need to get these people new notebooks, and am probably going with Dell, I can get the "Windows 7 with XP downgrade" and then I will have XP and a 32 bit version of Windows 7 I can install at a later date. again with Windows 7 being 32 bit I am assuming these old apps will run on it, but there is no benefit of anything over about 3 gig of RAM and all that....I really wish I could have the best of both worlds, 64 bit OS, with a 32 bit mode?? Does that exist? Seems to me i saw something like that somewhere....Then I could have all the hardware advantages, and still run old 32 bit apps.
Opinions? PLEASE?
TIA
Bitsbucket