Microsoft Employee Leaks 128-bit Plans for Windows 8 & 9 on LinkedIn
Microsoft Senior Research & Development employee Robert Morgan made big news yesterday when it was discovered that he had posted his current project information on social networking site LinkedIn. His profile stated, “Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects. Research & Development projects including 128bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM.” While this statement has now been removed, the 128-bit plans are now out of the bag! It will be interesting to see if there will be a benefit to 128-bit data in CPUs (now expected by 2012, 2011?) because there likely won’t be a need to address more than 16 exabytes anytime soon!
Microsoft has said very little publicly about Windows 8, although on a visit to the UK earlier this week, CEO Steve Ballmer denied rumours that Windows 7 would be the last major client OS the company produced. Ballmer admitted that planning was underway on Windows 8, although it’s highly unlikely that the OS will arrive until 2012 at the earliest.
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