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It's also poorly written programs. Some programs look at the Operating System string, and if it's not the same thing that they're looking for, they refuse to run. Of course, they don't bother checking for the XP 64 string, so you get software that won't run (only because XP 64 is identified as XP 64). I don't see this very often in games (in fact, the last game that did this was way back in the 98/XP transition days), but commercial applications do this. Generally, if the quality control department sucks, you end up with sucky software - it's that simple.
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