Windows 8 To Support 128-Bit?
128-bit Windows 8?
The Windows 7 launch parties are soon to be kicking off but Microsoft is already looking to the future and working on 128-bit architecture compatibility for Windows 8 and 9.
While the stomping boots of progress cannot be halted in their relentless path, am I the only one who believes that this is premature? Perhaps the effort should be spent on getting everybody onto 64-bit platforms first and fully exploring the potential of the 64-bit space.
We have to have a cut off point. When will Windows 8 come out? 3 years? I believe they’re aiming for 2012. You can’t seriously expect me to believe that everybody, especially the notoriously slow to upgrade corporations will have abandoned their 32-bit hardware. Are vendors and developers going to have to support 3 versions of their programs?
Or will things still be like they are today, except instead of people running 32-bit applications on 64-bit machines they’ll be running 32-bit apps on 128-bit machines?
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