{"id":4614,"date":"2009-10-12T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"128-bit-windows-in-the-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/4614-128-bit-windows-in-the-pipeline","title":{"rendered":"128-bit Windows in the pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation was made <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eightforums.com\/windows_8\/windows-8-x128-the-next-pc-revolution-has-is-begun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eightforums <\/a>spotted this post on Microsoft Senior Research &amp; Development employee Robert Morgan&#8217;s LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft working on 128-bit Windows 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}