<p>Any PIC students download Visual Studio 2010 from the MSDNA site? Did they do anything to you? It's labeled "not for use in PIC classes" but I'm itching for some new software.</p>
<p>VS 2010 is overkill. VC++ Express is a lot more lightweight and all you need.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t care about the features in the software. I’m one of those really shallow people who would buy something just because it has a newer date printed on its packaging. :D</p>
<p>Don’t sue me if you fail PIC because all your builds break, but it’s probably just a case of them not wanting to deal with support issues that arise from using the latest version.</p>
<p>I just realized Visual Studio 2010 only comes in 32-bit. How is a 32-bit program overkill? </p>
<p>'Course, it makes my desire to download it way less; but then again, maybe 32-bit Visual Studio will run faster than 64-bit Visual Studio 2008? I shall see.</p>
<p>EDIT: It’s always amusing to watch software companies push back time.</p>
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:facepalm:</p>
<p>The fundamental difference between 32-bit and 64-bit architecture is that 64-bit architecture has memory registers that are 64 bits wide. Changing a program from 32-bit to 64-bit has little influence on the complexity of the program.</p>
<p>^64 bit = more pointers = more complex. That’s the jist of all I know about computer architectures. :D</p>