If they wanted to make it easy, the choice would be automatically made for the end user when the OS is installed – like it is with Solaris x86. It has nothing to do with ‘efficiency’ and everything to do with money extraction. How is it efficient? Sun for over a decade shipped cd’s with 64bit and 32bit binaries on the same media – Microsoft chooses NOT to do that or even offer BOTH at the same time because it means it forces the customer to purchase a new licence when they want to move from 32bit to 64bit. From a manufacturing standpoint, I’d say it seems pretty efficient. I’m pretty sure a decision like this was actively made by Microsoft, and more than likely it’s cost effective for them to ship separate media according to ‘bitness’.Īlso, don’t forget that all SKU’s of Vista come on either a Retail/OEM 32-bit, or Retail/OEM 64-bit DVD the edition which is installed from the DVD is determined by the license key entered, so it’s not like there are 12 different DVD combinations they have to press.
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