Win 32

[Thorsten Behrens]

Hi Dante,

Dante Doménech wrote:
> Isn't it time to start removing windows 32 support?
>
I believe that would be premature. There's still a sizeable fraction
of users running Windows 7 [1], which itself likely has a sizeable
fraction of x86 installations - no hard data though [2].

There's also the thing that a number of LibreOffice/OpenOffice
extensions out there use the 32bit c++ UNO bindings, so we would need
to provide a fallback (32bit URE plus a way to run extensions out of
process) to keep them working.

[1] https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22platformVersion%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22platformsDesktopVersions%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222019-07%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222020-06%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/57fse0/windows_32b_vs_64b_market_share_statistics/

Best,

-- Thorsten
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