Stuck in 32

Looking back, apart from the server class machines, desktop microprocessors begin to spot their 64bit muscles with the release of AMD64 and followed by Intel 64, etc with their origins way back in the late 90s and early 2000s and going mainstream in the 2000s.

Fast forward now, most machines are capable of 64bit computing but the software has not kept up. OSs more or less kept up with technology, less their delivery time which can be taken with a pinch of salt given the complexity of modern OS. But why are we still stuck in 32bit computing world? Just look at my machine, although the OS is 64bit but most application installed on it are still operating with the 32bit base.

The only reason that I can think of that creates this barrier is: Money. Not money you are willing to spent on technology but the money that you already spent on software. That is why you still have companies nowadays spotting Core i7 machines but still running MS-DOS 6.22. Why? Because the business software that they brought in that era is working fine, so why must I spent money for a new one? Same reason why people still use Windows98 with Office97 or still using WindowsXP and reluctant to change to Windows 7.

So I am for one that standby software companies to enforce and followed a strict end-of-life date and is printed in bold on every packaging of every software product much like canned food having a used-by date. Maybe that is one way that we can stop everyone from living in the past and start to move forward into the future which is by the way, already here.