For the record I am running 64 bit Win 7. On 2 of 6 computers. The rest are Linux variants, and I have most of them (older computers) configured for one thing only. My new camera, which I paid most of up front, will have a gps built in. That means one more computer (laptop) bites the dust, all it did was post gps data to picture files using an automated script I wrote a few years back. It was a pain getting them posted to a directory and fetched, you can automate stuff in Linux but on a pc that's a nightmare.

Time to re-write that, I was using it in Europe, but my new flowchart on the wall has me using a linux box to fetch pictures from the windows directories and look for matches in gps and other areas so I can process the files and shove the back onto the windows machine3.

32 bit o/s biz is going to die very hard. XP was quite stable and ran a lot of stuff Vista 64 and Win 64 cannot, and in many cases the software may be orphaned but has a hard core of users. My best friend is a prof and always used WordPerfect. He upgraded to Win7 and it just won't work, always hanging, etc. So guess what, brand new machine now has XP again. "Open Office", well he claims to be an old dog, so no new tricks.

John Conley
Musica est vita