>It is worthy to note Google stopped 32 bit development in 2016 and M$ rebuilt Edge as a chromium browser in 2018. Around 16 months later. Why? Google was still porting 32bit Chrome for XP. I don't remember the year and not going to go down that rabbit hole looking for it, but at some point we stopped doing 16-bit development too and moved to 32-bit exclusively. It's not necessarily a sinister thing. It happened to avoid thunking layers and other mixed architecture nightmares that programmers hate dealing with. You may see it as conspiracy. I see it as programmers making their work more efficient and less complicated. It was inevitable to do so when 64-bit architecture became the mainstream. If its any consolation, I don't think we'll see this happen again since there is no real need to move CPU architecture to 128-bit any time in the foreseeable future. We'll sooner see new architectures that are vastly different than to see x128 happen in out lifetimes.