1 - agreed on the Mac parts, I do not care about open source stuff

2 - err, what's your point?  when was Silverlight even in this discussion?

3 - HTML5 should've happened ages ago.  It didn't, and Flash has been doing quite a bit for multimedia on the web in the meantime.  Also, HTML5 doesn't do DRM, so it won't replace Flash or Silverlight for all video.

4 - Malware infection?  News to me.  And I'd think anyone who keeps it up to date and is smart about what sites they visit.  I don't want a Flash or javascript blocker.  And there is a 64 bit version of Flash for Windows on Adobe Labs now, as I mentioned earlier.

In one of my post... slowly, Silverlight/Moonlight begin to replace flash on internet site... by example, the internet news video from TV station of my country have move from flash to silverlight around one year ago...

That may have been one of the biggest faults, but the UAC all or none (1/0) was the biggest.

Well, i can say that i like very much Solaris... very simple install and everything work directly on my computer...

About Linux, when compared to Windows, there is certainly some advantage...

The first one, related to these topic, you have not these 2gb limit !!!

Second, if you have a good bios, several of the option for speed up your system have a flag "don't work with windows"... a good example, very interesting for game, is the bios option called "Discrete MTRR Allocation"... these option allow faster graphic on system with more that 4gb ram... work with any Unix based system ( Linux, Solaris, FreeBSB, MAC OS, etc... ) but don't work with Windows...

In fact, my second prefered game, sins of solar empire, run better on Linux that on Windows... it is true today but it was not true when the game was launched ( no multiplayer on Linux )... Linux have evolve and it have become possible to enjoy fully the game...

My main complain with Linux is that slowly, it become like windows product... i mean software with bug who need a lot of patch ( kb ) for have a 100% stable system... Debian being the exception but being several version back... Solaris is for me the top OS in stability... MAC OS is nothing more that a bad rip off of FreeBSD with some cute GUI...

These topic show a lot of different point of view... and none of these point of view are wrong... nothing is black or white, all is a shade of gray... i think that gamers are ready to move for the new generation but the majority of industry are not ready... by industry, i don't mean computer/software industry but usual business... imagine a business with 100 computer connected to a central server with 32 processor... this is a total of 132 processor... it mean 132 Win7 licence... add to this new software... not the cheap one at 50$ like game but professional software at 100 or 1000 $$$ ... upgrade now for a lot of business mean a lot of money to be spend... not really something good in the actual economical world crisis... at the people level, a lot of them have loose their job, some have difficulty for pay house/car/etc... upgrade to Windows 7 and spend money is not really a priority for them...

Stop producing for 32bit. Until 32bit applications stop being mainstream, you'll always have people like my father, that still lament the death of Windows 3.1 and program his PLCs in DOS.

If you want it done, you'll have to force people.

Wait, what?  Windows 3.1...that's the one that barely worked and didn't work with most of the stuff you wanted it to right?

Feel free to mail me a copy.. otherwise deal with the fact that i refuse to pay an arm and a leg for a new OS

Especially when my current OS works fine.

Or you'll just kill your own sales. Many people are not gonna spend 100-$200(or more in my case if I want the functionality of my Current OS in a new one) to upgrade OS just to run a game.. I wouldn't. Not to mention all those 32-bit users of Win 7 who would be all like "wtf I have the newest version and your game doesn't support it"

mmm, let me check... nope, no 2GB limit on my windows7 64bit.

You compare 2002 windows (winXP) to current linux builds from 2010... it is as silly as comparing a linux build from 2002 (when winXP was released) to current MS OS in the year 2010.

What is my point? My point is that you made the following retarded statement about me:

Mind apologizing for that baseless slander? or at least admitting that you were just blowing smoke.

This goes double for Microsoft; Stop producing 32bit OS. Stop giving people the choice to choose the lesser options.

Forcing people to upgrade via making things incompatible isn't the right way to go about it... but MS shouldn't be producing 32bit OS anymore. It isn't a choice, it is a trap. A 32bit version of windows is inferior in every single shape way or form to 64bit and shouldn't be used by anyone. It was slightly easier to port drivers for, but at the cost of requiring TWO seperate driver builds and thus requiring a 32bit and 64bit version of each driver for vista and win7 instead of just having a singular vista/win7 driver.

That being said, MS said windows 8 will be 64bit only.

A huge part of the reason why 32-bit is lasting as long as it does is because of corporate clients, not home users. Where I work, we have over 100,000 computers, all still running WinXP 32-bit. An announcement of an upgrade to Windows 7 over the summer said the upgrade will take several *years*. I expect us to be using Win 7 32-bit, as well, as we have a metric crapton of internal and contracted applications running and there's little need to upgrade hardware on all the machines. 

Microsoft needed to give the corporate side a good 32-bit platform to replace the aging XP, and Vista wouldn't have cut it. Win7 does, and it makes sense that Win8 will be 64-bit only, as that will give the corporate users more or less a decade or so to transition into using 64-bit machines. 

Which won't matter to many since we all know MS will continue their price gouging leaving many still running xp 32 bit.. or ubuntu lol. TBH if I had not received XP as a gift i'd still be running windows 2000 pro.

But hey i'm one of those silly working poor.. who cares about us since we have such low purchasing power anyway.

Windows 7 64bit is an EXCELLENT 32bit platform... it can run any 32bit app with no problems, unless it requires 32bit driver, in which case it has "xp mode".

It will matter because new computers are bundled with the latest MS OS.

Students can also upgrade really cheap, and a huge percentage of the people out there will just pirate it.

As a result of all of the above it will expand its market-share quickly.