Emil Protalinski has been reading the tea leaves: Believe it or not, Windows 7’s successor(s) have been in the planning and early development stages for a while now. … We’ve been watching closely to ...

Sixty-four-bit computing is here and available to systems builders now. Although recent advances in 32-bit processors have been impressive, the idea of data coursing through 64-bit wide registers at ...

Do you remember the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit computing in the 1980s, and the jump from 16-bit to 32-bit platforms in the 1990s? Well, here we go again. We double up again, this time leaping from ...

Linux remains overmatched in the 32-bit world on the desktop. There is just too large a base of Windows users and related applications for Linux to dominate the market in a reasonable period of time.

Jim Allchin, group vice president of platforms at Microsoft Corp., wants to dispel the notion that 64-bit computing is helpful only for big database servers and computer-assisted design (CAD) ...

Back in the days before computers, when people talked about bits they were talking about twenty-five cents. But in today’s computer world, 32-bit refers to the number of bits (the smallest unit of ...

IT is rediscovering a simple but nearly forgotten principle: Throughput and capacity are everything. It hardly matters how fast the processor is if, like a Ferrari in city traffic, it bogs down every ...

About 46 percent of Windows 7 PCs worldwide are 64-bit, Microsoft says, compared to only 11 percent for Windows Vista After a slow start, a larger number of PCs are using the 64-bit version of Windows ...