32bit/64bit drivers

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The delays might make life easier for businesses and home users alike, if the hardware manufacturers heed Microsoft's call to work on 64-bit drivers. Although 32-bit software runs happily, 32-bit drivers don't, because it's too dangerous to run anything in the kernel that's not completely compatible with the hardware. That means anything you connect to your system, from a network card to a digital camera, will need a new driver. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3...1275827,00.html

I'm not quite sure what this gal is saying. Am I to read that as 32bit drivers don't function properly with the current 64bit cpu's available ?

Edit; And this doesn't look good;

 

To put it crudely, the hardware manufacturers already have your money, so why should they produce new drivers for new versions of Windows so you can run old devices?