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  What is the WOW64 and what does it mean to managed apps that you run on 64bit machines?
Time: 02:47 EST/07:47 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner

So, what is the WOW64? If you already have a firm grasp please feel free to skip these first few paragraphs to the section titled “Break in here for the .Net perspective”.

When I went and Google’d a bit to see if anyone had a convincing answer out there what I seemed to find instead was confusion. Note this article titled “WOW64 for AMD Released to the Public”. With a firmer understanding of what the WOW64 is the fact that this headline is misleading would not have escaped that journalist. So lets start with the name:

WOW64 = Windows On Windows64

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