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 ...

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 ...

If you want to know if an installed software or program is 32-bit or 64-bit, then 1 of these 4 tricks will tell you if it is a 32-bit or 64-bit app.

However, some 32-bit installations persist, usually in cases where a lower-spec PC would show now benefit from running 64-bit software or where legacy hardware or software needs to be supported.

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?