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Sorry about the lame question but reading MSDN did not make that clear to me.
Are type libraries (.tlb) independent with regard to architectures and versions of the Windows SDK ?
Yes, type libraries should work across different cpu architectures. This wouldn’t have prevented a programmer from hammering a pointer or a handle into a integer, a not entirely uncommon sin since they are not types that are permitted in automation. Such a component is unlikely to work well in 64-bit code.
Core automation types like BSTR and VARIANT declared in the Windows SDK headers are stable and can never be changed. And haven’t.