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![]() In a recent announcement by Microsoft's Chris Betz from their security response center (MSRC), this company is focusing on 'optimizing' the notices for their biggest customers only, no longer providing them for free to all.īetz commented in the MSRC blog that " moving forward, we will provide ANS information directly to Premier customers and current organizations involved in our security programs, and will no longer make this information broadly available through a blog post and web page." He went on to mention that " more and more customers today are seeking to cut through the clutter and obtain security information tailored to their organizations. Considering that Windows is deployed into over a billion computers this still seems like a small fraction of the user base, and with the vast majority of systems being 64-bit compatible it is interesting that Microsoft will still develop 32-bit versions.Ĭontinue reading: Microsoft's Windows 10 will also feature 32-bit version, but why? (full post) Power naps done right - There's an app for everything This is based off of computers that are currently receiving patches, but it could expand into the hundreds of millions. ![]() Of course Microsoft has to consider all of the existing computers that run 32-bit versions of the operating system, which are estimated to be roughly 71 million. Add in PCI and ACPI and the pool starts to get pretty shallow, so why oh why is Microsoft still moving forward with 32-bit? Many GPU's feature much more than 1GB of RAM, and this drains the user addressable memory pool, so subtract a portion of video memory (it's not a direct 1:1 ratio) from the total RAM you can actually use. 32-bit operating systems pigeonhole users to 4GB of user addressable memory, not just RAM.
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