With each progression of Windows comes a new crop of compatibility problems - sort it out Microsoft!
Err at this point thats an old version of Windows and it isn't up to Microsoft to make sure 32bit apps work on 64bit OSes. Thats up to the people who wrote the game in the first place.
No ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, Sherlock. However software developers aren't always aware of OS updates so how they gonna do that? That'd be like a third-party game company trying to write a game for Playstation 4 right now - who knows what's gonna be needed? MS should be addressing backwards compatibility as important - as console manufacturers finally acknowledged with this generation of consoles and made efforts to make old software playable.
If MS did that maybe we wouldn't gripe over having to fork out 100 notes for their latest 'must-have' standard, only to find out that loads of stuff we've got doesn't work. Games are one thing, but loads of apps I know my friends liked using just don't work on new OS builds.
