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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2006-01-02
I'm pretty sure no one at Microsoft was hyping this as a potential Windows feature, because it's pretty dumb.. to populate an address space that large and manipulate even 64 bits worth of addressable data would take considerable amounts of energy. Even in the filesystem space, 64 bits is enough.
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We already have support for 128 bit numerical processing (in the form of SSE support). In fact, you could say that even Windows XP is a 128-bit OS