When installing windows to the a mac when you have parallel software on should it be 32 or 64 bit?

I am new to the Mac Pro
I have some software (Microsoft) which I wish to load after being advised to use "Parallel"
Should the Windows software be 32 or 64 bit?

64 bit for your 64 bit processors.
You don't want to use half the registers with 32 bit code, it's going away anyway.
You can set the RAM to whatever you need and have options to increase it beyond 3.5 GB in the future too.

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