Nearly half of Windows 7 installs are 64-bit
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Seven years after AMD first unleashed its Athlon 64 desktop chips, it looks as though the 64-bit revolution is finally about to kick off. Microsoft has revealed that out of all the Windows 7 installations out there, a massive 46 per cent of them are 64-bit. The figures are based on the number of installations at the end of June this year, and make a stark contrast with the stats for previous versions of Windows. For example, 89 per cent of Windows Vista installations...
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