If your version of Windows is 64-bit, you're able to install both 32-bit and 64-bit software programs, so there are two different "Program Files" folders on your computer. However, 32-bit versions ...

VirtualBox is flexible enough to handle many types of 32-bit and 64-bit configurations. If you need to run a 32-bit version of XP in a 64-bit host, you can do that without any problems.

When the 32/64-bit transition was new, all benchmarks showed a substantial performance boost (in the vicinity of 10-25%) by just switching to 64-bit on the same hardware, and that was with systems ...

Raspberry Pi has been using 64-bit processors for its tiny, low-cost computers since the organization launched the Raspberry Pi 3 in early 2016. But up until now the official Raspberry Pi OS has ...

For now, a crisis seems to have been averted. But for how long? At what point will it be acceptable to finally remove the ability to natively run 32-bit software from modern operating systems?

It only supports 64-bit x86-64 binaries, also known as x64, and thus he had initially discounted it for running older 32-bit x86 software.

And, of course, 64-bit Windows has its disadvantages: While most 32-bit applications have no problem in a 64-bit environment, utilities–which tend to work close to the OS’s core–are seldom ...