Sounds very encouraging.
I’ve usually been a beta person but been stung enough by Microslop have hesitated this time.
I have a fine 64 bit Gateway. Running non64 bit XP-P.
Would love to operate at 64 bit.
I have Office 2007. Would that be . . . functional?
There are very few apps that use 64 bit processing. Other than the ability to address more than 3GB of RAM, there aren’t many reasons to go to 64 bit version. I know as soon as I write this some poster will come out of the woodwork and claim the seperate address space etc. but really unless you’re running a CAD system etc., you’re not really going to see much if any improvement in performance.
When the release candidate comes out next month make a small partition where you can install it in a dual-boot experiment.
As far as mixing 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems....good luck with that.
I tried to install the 32-bit version of Windows 7 on a separate drive on my old Gateway XP box and the installation failed. Maybe if I played more with it I could get it to work, but then again that computer dates from early 2002 and I might be pressing my luck.