Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt points to a 32-bit path when on a 64-bit OS?

[Katherine Moss]

I was wondering if this is the case with anyone else using the 64 bit version 
of Windows 8, it's the case for me, and I think that if the OS is 64 bit, then 
shouldn't most of the tools and applications running on it also be?  Thanks for 
your input.