nospam
Sandman: I wonder what happened to your browser when you clicked it. Odd!

Sandman
Thanks for supporting me. That is not blaming you for anything, that is me wondering about something. Do learn to read.

nospam: you're assuming it's my browser.

Correct, i.e. not blaming you for anything. Only wondering. This is how English works. You were an asshole for no obvious reason.

nospam
you blamed it on my browser and now you're trying to weasel out of it.

Sandman
nospam: however, anyone running windows 7 and/or lightroom 5 is almost certainly running a 64 bit capable system because windows 7 on a 32 bit system is going to be painful and the vast majority of windows 7 users have it because they bought new hardware, which will be 64 bit.

The only data we have suggest that up to 12% of W7 users may be on 32 bit. I don't know how reliable that data is, and no other stats site I found have the W7 versions separated, unfortunately.

nospam
it's completely irrelevant.

Sandman
nospam: so amend it to be that *almost* everyone who runs lr5 on windows can upgrade to lr6 and *everyone* on a mac.

Correct. And my curiosity concerns just how much "almost" is.

nospam
nothing that matters or adobe wouldn't have done it.

Sandman
nospam: the number of people who run win7 on older 32 bit hardware is very low, particularly adobe users, close enough to zero to be considered zero.

Based on no actual data, of course, just assumption.

nospam
it's not an assumption.

Sandman
nospam: then why did you cite them?

Because it's the only data I *could* find. No other site seems to separate them. And while not relevant to the general PC population, it's at least indicative to some extent.

nospam
it's not indicative at all.

you did a quickie search and pick the first result, one which is totally irrelevant.

that's how you end up at shitty restaurants. you find a link that says some restaurant is good, oblivious to it being a shill review and not surprisingly, it turns out to be not great.

your research skills suck.

steam customers and adobe customers are *worlds* different. there is likely to be very little overlap in the two.

adobe knows *exactly* what their customer base is far better than you or anyone else does and they would not drop 32 bit support if it made a difference. it doesn't.

it's a complete non-issue.