Microsoft offered users a one-month grace period during which version 15.25 will be provided in both 32- and 64-bit.
Unlike the Windows edition of Office 2016, which comes in both 32- and 64-bit flavors, the Mac-specific suite will be available only in 64-bit after September. Apple has long urged developers to release 64-bit versions of applications - the Mac's operating system has supported only 64-bit Intel processors since 2011's OS X Lion - but Microsoft has been one of the most significant holdouts.įor users, the biggest benefit is the ability to work with much larger files - thanks to the significantly bigger swaths of memory that a 64-bit operating system can access.
