> I own a Windows 10 tablet with 1GiB RAM, for example. I own a Dell Venue 8 (3845) and the reason it's running Windows 10 32-bit instead of 64-bit is because

> I own a Windows 10 tablet with 1GiB RAM, for example. I own a Dell Venue 8 (3845) and the reason it's running Windows 10 32-bit instead of 64-bit is because Intel inexplicably decided to ship 32-bit UEFI on Bay Trail instead of 64-bit UEFI. As far as I know, all Bay Trail devices are running a 32-bit copy of Windows because of this. For Linux this isn't a problem, you can have grub x86 load an x86_64 kernel, but Windows doesn't have something similar. So 32-bit bootloader forces you to have a 32-bit OS. So, thank Intel. I'm sure Microsoft and OEMs would have put x64 Windows on it if they could have.