Office 2010 will not support XP 64-bit

[FlawleZ]

First of all I hate Office 2007. They took everything that has worked so well and familiar and changed it entirely. Not to mention it dropped important features that are so basic they're almost included in Notepad. So if Office 2007 is any foreshadowing to 2010, I'll pass. Regarding support for 64-bit XP, that doesn't surprise me at all. XP 64 had a lot of potential yet never received the driver support it deserved. And its obvious Microsoft didn't care to invest much effort as it would compromise their magnificent release of Vista.

Had XP 64 received the proper driver support it deserved, an updated GUI for those who are concerned with visuals, and proper implementation of DX10+, there would have been no reason for anyone to ever use Vista. Not to mention Microsoft wouldn't have learned their lesson with Vista and Windows 7 would likely be plagued with the issues Vista once had.

[slim142]

Who cares what people think? If you like XP x64 and you dont need to upgrade why do so? Im staying with XP x64 until the point in which the system becomes what today we see as Windows 98-2000.

Office 2010, I dont really care. Office 2003 still kicks ass and does everything I need. No need to upgrade for me.

[PrometheusCon]

I love love love the new citation/source feature built into Office 2007/2010. Someone mentioned it to me while I was writing a paper and my god is it sweet. No more Easybib or anything else online. I'm using Windows 7 64bit and the 2010 beta. Couldn't be happier.

[Kingcarcas]

I don't see the big deal, 2003 and 2007 will be fine, while us who have moved on can get more benefits from it. The guy who mentioned Wordpad in 7 is spot on! That's all i really need, until the day i have to do a spreadsheet or something OO is there for that.

[FlawleZ]

Who cares what people think? If you like XP x64 and you dont need to upgrade why do so? Im staying with XP x64 until the point in which the system becomes what today we see as Windows 98-2000.

Office 2010, I dont really care. Office 2003 still kicks ass and does everything I need. No need to upgrade for me.

I'm right there with ya. I use Office 2003 for everything. And I'm contemplating putting XP 64 back on my s939 setup just to play around with compatibility and new additions from the enthusiasts.

[Aerwidh]

Personally, I come with no official support for MS Office 2007 and newer anyway (it's interface and mine are having incompatibility issues), so no big deal for me if they don't support such a nice OS as XP64

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

I use corel products. MS can suck it when it comes to that sorta stuff.

[RaV[666]]

I dont get it why people call xp64 "awful".
It had some problems at start (which were 95% driver related, not the os fault in any way) .However, im using it for 3 years as my main system and its rock solid, its thin and lean compared to vista and win7 hogs (yea, hogs, win7 is just a tweaked vista and nothing more).For a while i was trying to migrate to vista sp2 x64.Windows folder got up to 10gigs in 2 months!
And pretty much everythinh besides aero and dx10/11 support was irritating me, i got a feeling they were changing things just to change them, and not to IMPROVE them.
I wasnt put off by the compatibility problems even, just the little things, everything is bigger slower , coded in less efficient way.And why everybody is so up in arms over win7 is beyond me, they just FIXED SOME BUGS which shouldnt be in vista in the first place.
Anyhow, migrating to win7 maybe some day will be viable, however, for now dx11 offers almost same graphix with a slowdown (look at dirt2).
There are pretty much only 2 downsides to xp64, no dx11 and aero.Both of which MS could resolve simply and quickly.They just wont.
And Office10 ? Well, for 95% of population office2007 is too much already.No need there.

[CarvedInside]

It's not rocket science to bring support for XP x64. I use XP x64 and I'm kinda disappointed, because I really liked Office 2007, and was looking forward to Office 2010 .

With the latest drivers, updates , and some really cool apps , Windows XP x64 is the best OS that Microsoft has to offer, especially in terms of performance . In my point of view the only good things windows 7 has to offer are the superbar and the performance monitoring tools.

Microsoft never stops to disappoint me.


LE:RaV[666] I completely agree with you on the Windows part.

[FlawleZ]

I dont get it why people call xp64 "awful".
It had some problems at start (which were 95% driver related, not the os fault in any way) .However, im using it for 3 years as my main system and its rock solid, its thin and lean compared to vista and win7 hogs (yea, hogs, win7 is just a tweaked vista and nothing more).For a while i was trying to migrate to vista sp2 x64.Windows folder got up to 10gigs in 2 months!
And pretty much everythinh besides aero and dx10/11 support was irritating me, i got a feeling they were changing things just to change them, and not to IMPROVE them.
I wasnt put off by the compatibility problems even, just the little things, everything is bigger slower , coded in less efficient way.And why everybody is so up in arms over win7 is beyond me, they just FIXED SOME BUGS which shouldnt be in vista in the first place.
Anyhow, migrating to win7 maybe some day will be viable, however, for now dx11 offers almost same graphix with a slowdown (look at dirt2).
There are pretty much only 2 downsides to xp64, no dx11 and aero.Both of which MS could resolve simply and quickly.They just wont.
And Office10 ? Well, for 95% of population office2007 is too much already.No need there.

I wanted to try the DX10 patch for XP 64. Is it 100% functional? I've read people say it adds DX10 but games still run in DX9?

[slim142]

Forget about those DX10 projects for XP. It just never happened and doub it will ever do.

[Movieman]

Sure it was. Server 2003 and XP were both awful in their 64-bit editions. You ever try using them? Horrible. Vista, 7, 2008, and 2008 R2 on the other hand are great.

I run XP 64 pro on all 5 machines here including my daily driver.
Never an issue. love it.

[Shakti]

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[STEvil]

XP-64 here on several machines since it was available. Working great.

[AndrewZorn]

Good, it's time people moved on.

except they did it wrong. it would be nice to see 32bit getting the shaft, not XP.

[slim142]

The only things I hate about XP x64 is

1) I cant have iTunes 9, im stuck with 8 but I can live with it
2) Guitar Hero III wont let me get it patched to 1.4. Stuck with 1.0 but again, its a game and this is a server OS.

None of those two problems are enough reason to go back or upgrade. Sorry MS.

[stevecs]

All I can say is Meh. I still use Office 2003 at work with the 2007 'compatability' filters as 2007 just sucks. IMHO takes more time to get something /done/ which is a net negative. At home I've long since replaced office with OpenOffice and the only thing it's missing is visio. (but 2003 visio works just fine). All of this is under XP x64. I have Win7 loaded on the same system and don't use it, always seems to take more effort/more clicks to get something done. I don't sit at a computer to look at 'pretty menus' or crap but to accomplish things. If something doesn't make my day to day work more efficient it won't get used, period.

[lutjens]

The biggest problem with Windows XP x64 is that may hardware manufacturers considered it to not be mainstream enough to warrant making a driver for and simply ignored it, only releasing drivers when Vista x64 was released (and in many cases continuing to ignore the x64 crowd). I really liked Windows XP x64. Lean, clean, stable and familiar.

[zanzabar]

i dont think that they got it right, at the pre launch events they had xp and server03x64 with office 10. im about 90% sure that its the 64bit office 10 wont support xp or server03

the beta is out im sure that some1 with a server03 or xp x64 can test it

[MrMojoZ]

Was anyone still using XP/2k3 64 really excited about a new version of office anyway?

[STEvil]

Nope.

I use OpenOffice.

[3NZ0]

Was anyone still using XP/2k3 64 really excited about a new version of office anyway?

Nail. Head. Hammer.

Some just aren't that bothered at all but there are those people that continue to hail xp and claim w7 is 'a tweaked vista', these are the same people who use 2000/3 and claim it is infinitely superior to anything.

The same users who have 4-12 gigs of ram and tweak their os to use 10 megs of ram because they don't want their systems using the hardware they have paid for.

[STEvil]

Nail. Head. Hammer.

Some just aren't that bothered at all but there are those people that continue to hail xp and claim w7 is 'a tweaked vista', these are the same people who use 2000/3 and claim it is infinitely superior to anything.

The same users who have 4-12 gigs of ram and tweak their os to use 10 megs of ram because they don't want their systems using the hardware they have paid for.

Are you really sure about that?

[3NZ0]

Are you really sure about that?

Pretty sure, quite a number of my mates fall into that category.

[AndrewZorn]

eh, youre mixing stereotypes a little bit. new software is great, bloatier bloatware is not (not that the new office is, but i still use RTF for my documents). minimizing software demands makes any computer faster... i dont want to 'use' my new hardware for some of the stupid services out there, it isn't like people are [often] sacrificing usability for speed when they disable indexing service.

windows 7 is a tweaked vista.
i use it, and like it, but dont act like it really is some from-the-ground-up revolution.