I am using and trial version of Office 365 (on a 64 bit Windows 8 machine but Office is 32 bit) and would like to also download a trial version of Visio 2013. However, I cannot seem to find the 32 bit version to download.

Can anyone help? Thanks Eddie

We can download it from here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973399.aspx 

Make sure to choose the correct version during the register progress:

Thanks Max!

That's all well and good, but what about if I downloaded the 64 bit before I realized I needed 32 bit.  It won't let me go back and change it, it just keeps bringing me back to download the 64 bit version again.  Is there no way to change it without creating a whole new Microsoft account?

This is my problem too. There seems to be no way of going back and downloading the 32 bit version. This is ridiculous. 

I agree. This IS ridiculous. I accidentally downloaded the wrong bit-version for the stupid trial and now Windows 8.1 won't even let me install it. It thinks I installed it already, when in fact nothing was able to ever install. If Microsoft is going to allow me to screw up like this, why not just bundle Visio with the Microsoft Office 365 suite? I wouldn't be having this problem if I didn't have to SEEK and INSTALL Visio separately, which is now impossible to do because WINDOWS won't let me do it! I'm tired of this issue constantly messing people up and cheating them out of a honest to good free version of a product they may never really ever want to purchase or use. I just wanted to use the trial FAIRLY and go about my business, but apparently Microsoft doesn't want my business. Fine!

• Edited by That Random Guy Tuesday, March 03, 2015 4:03 PM Typo

I agree. This IS ridiculous. I accidentally downloaded the wrong bit-version for the stupid trial and now Windows 8.1 won't even let me install it. It thinks I installed it already, when in fact nothing was able to ever install. If Microsoft is going to allow me to screw up like this, why not just bundle Visio with the Microsoft Office 365 suite? I wouldn't be having this problem if I didn't have to SEEK and INSTALL Visio separately, which is now impossible to do because WINDOWS won't let me do it! I'm tired of this issue constantly messing people up and cheating them out of a honest to good free version of a product they may never really ever want to purchase or use. I just wanted to use the trial FAIRLY and go about my business, but apparently Microsoft doesn't want my business. Fine!

• Edited by That Random Guy Tuesday, March 03, 2015 4:03 PM Typo

I agree. This IS ridiculous. I accidentally downloaded the wrong bit-version for the stupid trial and now Windows 8.1 won't even let me install it. It thinks I installed it already, when in fact nothing was able to ever install. If Microsoft is going to allow me to screw up like this, why not just bundle Visio with the Microsoft Office 365 suite? I wouldn't be having this problem if I didn't have to SEEK and INSTALL Visio separately, which is now impossible to do because WINDOWS won't let me do it! I'm tired of this issue constantly messing people up and cheating them out of a honest to good free version of a product they may never really ever want to purchase or use. I just wanted to use the trial FAIRLY and go about my business, but apparently Microsoft doesn't want my business. Fine!

• Edited by That Random Guy Tuesday, March 03, 2015 4:03 PM Typo

It's not Windows that is causing this restriction, it's the installer itself doing this. if the restriction is a bug then it should be quite easy to fix. However, if the restriction is by design then it is rather peculiar, almost as if somebody hasn't quite thought it through properly. The initial installation should start the 60 day trial, uninstalling and installing a different version, different bits or different language version should still be possible within the 60 day period. As you say, it is a quite legitimate thing to want to do.

It is Windows. However, like many have been saying, it's by a restriction of design. They don't allow multiple trials to be run on one machine, which is fair in my mind, but I never got access to the application. The first attempt never really fixed it's way through and couldn't install, but it still did something with the registry even though I would've never been able to install it as it was the wrong bit-version. In other words, the set-up failed. So, when I actually tried to install the correct bit-version, Windows would not let me and gave me the error 25004. So, because I didn't realize that my Visio trial had to be the same bit-version as my currently installed Office 365, I lost the chance to gain access to the application. That upsets me because now, even though I've tried the suggestions they've recommended (FixIT tool, OFFCAT, etc.), nothing has happened. The trial never got installed, so it's not even on my currently installed programs list or anywhere that I can think of. I notice that there are two 'Office 15' files located in my Hard Drive, but I really don't know what to do with that. I'm honestly considering just factory resetting my my entire laptop so that I can get the trial to work. I need this trial to work so that I can work on school. I don't have any other option at this point besides commuting to my college, but that's a 40-min drive that I don't want to have to resort to every time I need to work on Visio. I just wish there was an easy answer for me so that I can get this thing to work. I'm looking everywhere on the net to see if anyone has any solution to this...

This 32 or 64-bit issue, most users don't know (or care) which version they have. I've just had a look at the About screen of my Visio, it says nothing about 32 or 64-bit. I do happen to know which version it is, but that's not the point.

I can agree with that.

I honestly didn't think it mattered to begin with considering they were separate downloads, but I guess something should have clicked when I realized Visio was technically an Office product. My issue is that they don't have a legitimate answer for this and just tell me they can't do anything about it. What am I supposed to do with that?

• Edited by That Random Guy Tuesday, March 03, 2015 6:28 PM typo

I can agree with that.

I honestly didn't think it mattered to begin with considering they were separate downloads, but I guess something should have clicked when I realized Visio was technically an Office product. My issue is that they don't have a legitimate answer for this and just tell me they can't do anything about it. What am I supposed to do with that?

• Edited by That Random Guy Tuesday, March 03, 2015 6:28 PM typo

I can agree with that.

I honestly didn't think it mattered to begin with considering they were separate downloads, but I guess something should have clicked when I realized Visio was technically an Office product. My issue is that they don't have a legitimate answer for this and just tell me they can't do anything about it. What am I supposed to do with that?

• Edited by That Random Guy Tuesday, March 03, 2015 6:28 PM typo