{"id":234,"date":"2010-04-16T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T04:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idubbs.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-04-16T22:15:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T04:15:28","slug":"office-2010-what-you-need-to-know-about-64-bit-vs-32-bit-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/2010\/office-2010-what-you-need-to-know-about-64-bit-vs-32-bit-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 2010: What you need to know about 64-bit vs. 32-bit versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up an interesting tidbit this evening about the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Office 2010 (which by the way announced RTM \u2018status\u2019 today \u2013 congrats to the product teams!):&#160; Functionality between the two bit-level versions is NOT the same.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>By default, I would expect the 64-bit version of Office 2010 to be the latest and greatest.&#160; It IS the latest, but it\u2019s only the greatest if you have some specific needs and don\u2019t need some of the features that DON\u2019T work \u2013 features that many people will miss.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>This article gets into the details you need:   <br \/><a title=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee681792(office.14).aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee681792(office.14).aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee681792(office.14).aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Specifically take a look at the \u2018Advantages\u2019 and \u2018Disadvantages\u2019 sections.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:&#160; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As you would expect, the 64-bit version allows use of additional memory, which translates into larger Excel 2010 workbooks and big Project 2010 projects.<\/li>\n<li>As you (at least I) wouldn\u2019t expect \u2013 some features like the <strong>Edit in Datasheet<\/strong> view DON\u2019T work with Office 64-bit installed.&#160; The details and reasoning can be found in the article but they\u2019re related to ActiveX controls and COM add-ins\u2026&#160; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, get to know the details before you purchase or plan to deploy Office 2010.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up an interesting tidbit this evening about the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Office 2010 (which by the way announced RTM \u2018status\u2019 today \u2013 congrats to the product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-2010","category-sharepoint-2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgWQ1-3M","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}