Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 7th Oct 2009 19:15 UTC, submitted by JayDee
Microsoft has been thinking about Windows 8 for a while now even through the production of Windows 7. Some information has been gathered by our friends over at Ars, and all of this said information points to possible 128-bit versions of Windows 8 and definite 128-bit versions of Windows 9. Update: Other technophiles better-versed than I in this whole 64/128-bit business pointed out that it must be for the filesystem (such as ZFS described in this article) rather than the processor and memory scheme.
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The reference to IA-128 in the article is probably bogus (written by an incompetent journalist) and such an architecture doesn't exist. But seeing that several references in the lower part talk about files and file systems, I guess that windows will switch the file system to support 128bits.
For external storage it might be possible that we see storage arrays which such gigantic spaces in the next 10 or 20 years. SUNs ZFS supports 128bit for a few years now, so I assume microsoft doesn't want to lack in that area...