64bit Vista, and Windows 7 have full driver support and compatibility, they are able to run any 32bit application. Only older vapor-ware drivers will not work, but that does not matter cause the drivers that will not work are for products that have been out of production for several years.

I can run anything on the x64 Windows 7 install that I am using.

Your mind set seems to be stuck at some where about 3 years ago, before 64bit OSes went mainstream.

also the ablity to utilize 16.8 Million terabytes of memory is big fail?


also, do you have any recolection of how big of a FAIL Win XP was before they released SP1? Also if you are building a NEW pc say for example with a Quad Core CPU, and using an XP 32bit install will only limit and bottleneck your hardware. It took patches after patches after updates to get XP to even be able to utilize more than 2 CPU threads.