South Africans will be able to buy Windows 7 in less than two weeks. While the tech-world waits anxiously for the release of the much anticipated operating system, information has been revealed which suggests that Microsoft is already working on a 128-bit operating system.
The revelation was made Eightforums spotted this post on Microsoft Senior Research & Development employee Robert Morgan’s LinkedIn profile.
“Robert Morgan is working to get IA-128 working backwards with full binary compatibility on the existing IA-64 instructions in the hardware simulation to work for Windows 8 and definitely Windows 9.”
64-bit operating systems are becoming more common, and are prized for their increased performance and ability to recognize more than 4GB of RAM, a limitation which has caused many high-end gamers to move on from 32-bit operating systems.
We do not know what the real-world implications of a 128-bit OS would be, but if the post bears any truth then Windows 7 will be the last Microsoft OS to feature just 32-bit and 64-bit variants.
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