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Office 2007 on 64-bit OS - what do you lose?

Office 2007 on 64-bit OS - what do you lose?

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I upgraded to Vista 64-bit about 2 months ago now. For the most part, no major problems. I was hoping that it would show all 4GB of memory I've got, but it turns out that it isn't an "addressable space" issue but a "crappy old chipset" issue. Apparently the Santa Rosa intel chipsets don't have this problem or some other daft hardware thing (I'm a software guy...damn hardware :) )

Anyway, Office 2007 is a 32-bit app and 32-bit apps run fine using a thing in vista called Windows on Windows (or WoW). However, there is some functionality that you don't get:

  • Send to OneNote 2007 print driver
  • Internet Fax
  • Groove Folder Synchronization
  • Office Clean-up wizard.

The ones in bold are the really painful ones for me. I put faxes in the same basket as telex and telegrams. In addition, there are a couple of other things that don't quite work on Vista 64 bit:

  • Flash on IE64 (see earlier post)
  • Silverlight gadgets
  • Windows Live Suite installers

Obviously, none of these are deal breakers - but given that I want to be able to demonstrate all the cool features of Office 2007 running on bare metal rather than virtualised, I think it is time to re-image. Now, about those backups...

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  • I would also like to have office in 64 bit os.

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