Many people will look to see if their Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit and choose the matching version. Microsoft Office is a popular application and when given the option to download, for example with Office 365, you are given the option of downloading the 32-bit installer or the 64-bit installer since Office 2010. 64-bit Windows gives the operating system much more RAM to work with (the OS actually controls the bottleneck more than the math now). A bit is a binary placeholder and 32 bits means the field is 32 spaces long, like the ones place, tens place, hundreds place, and so on. If you have more RAM than 3.2GB and a 32-bit version of Windows installed, that extra RAM is being wasted. 32 bits means Windows can address about 3.2 gigabytes of RAM (summarized as 4GB). The “bit-ness” of Windows is actually summarizing a mathematical problem that is addressed by 64-bit Windows. 64-bit versions of software can only be installed on 64-bit versions of Windows but 32-bit software can be installed on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows (thanks to the WoW64 extensions that have really improved the experience since Windows XP 64). 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows seem to throw a lot of people for loops.
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