STOPware will stop releasing the 32-bit version of its PassagePoint Visitor Management software as of Q2 2024. This will be for both setup installers as well as update installers. Users can still choose to keep using their existing version of PassagePoint which may be on a 32-bit version but in order to receive new features, enhancements or bug fixes, they will have to migrate to a 64-bit version of the software going forward. STOPware’s Tech Support team will be available to assist customers that have an active SSA with this migration.
64-bit architecture allows for a larger addressable memory space, which means you can have more random-access memory (RAM) installed on your computer and the 64-bit PassagePoint can utilize this larger memory space. With the long list of features that PassagePoint currently supports and the many enhancements we have planned to add to the product, we feel it is necessary to switch to 64-bit architecture. 64-bit computers are exponentially more powerful than their 32-bit counterparts. A 32-bit machine can handle 2 ^ 32-bits of data, while a 64-bit machine can handle 2 ^ 64-bits of data. This may not seem like that big of a difference but wait until you crunch those numbers - 32-bit architecture can support 4,294,967,296 bytes (around 4 gigabytes), while the 64-bit architecture can support 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes (around 18 billion gigabytes).
The world has majorly moved towards a 64-bit Operating System. Microsoft’s Windows 11 has stopped offering a 32-bit version of the Operating System. As a result all Windows PCs launched in the last few years have a 64-bit Operating System.