Getting Force.com IDE to Work

Was exploring a bit of Force.com platform by Salesforce and started by setting up the Eclipse IDE. A few key things that I can point out are:

• Ensure both your Eclipse and the JDK are the same "bit" version (32/64)
• If you cannot get the "Force.com" perspective to appear, instead of adding a vm arg to eclipse ini file, set "JAVA_HOME" and "PATH" system variables on your machine: eclipse should pick it up. I have linked the documentation for setting PATH. You can use the same process for JAVA_HOME