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I may read it the wrong way, but basically it says "since all (98.4%) our customers have more than 2 Gb of RAM, then Microsoft should only make 64 bit OS".

So, how many of Microsoft's customers are also customers of Backblaze?

Like 0.1%?

As a side note, the even point for the need to go 64 bit (bigger OS, bigger executables, more memory used, etc.) is not in my experience at the 4 Gb of RAM level, but rather at the 6 Gb.

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> So, how many of Microsoft's customers are also customers of Backblaze?

Looking at Backblaze logs, 100%.

I think you actually did. They are not saying - "Hey, we are having only a few 32bit customers, Microsoft should dump them". The problem is much more complex.

No, they are saying, more or less "Hey, having to support a tiny fraction of our users that are on 32 bit causes us a whole lot of problems, so, since we don't have the guts to tell these customers to switch to 64 bit, we are telling Microsoft what they should do in order to totally remove the inferior OS architecture."

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