Windows 8 could be 128-bit

PC Pro have an article which shows that Microsoft are working towards making Windows 8 an 128-bit operating system. This leak came from a MS employ via a social networking site (which just shows you should be careful what you write!):

You can read more here.

Good grief, they haven't even adapted all the software to 64 bit yet, and they're already talking about making it obsolete? Wow.

Windows 8 & 9 .... Windows 7 is not in the shops in the UK yet

128-bit would be interest. However, this loud call for new processors.

But the do need to move past 32-bit now. 7 should be the last 32-bit OS; However, people are very attached to XP, so I think MS should work on a very stable 64-bit OS that can live up to XP's standards if they want to truly move past 32-bit systems.

This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the first post.

How much ram would 128-bit support? Is there any point in 128 bit software yet?

what whould this mean?
Apple like speeds for a change haha.

128 Bit. Aww man this ruins my fun.
I just found out Yesterday that one of my old computers is 64 Bit and I was happy. Now I find out I'll have to get a 128 Bit computer in the future.

First of all someone would have to tell me the advantages of 128bit over the 64bit before I would even consider the 128bit. I am still currently 32bit and switching to 64bit. I see no reason why 64bit will not be all I need in the next few years to come.

After all what is the maximum memory for the 64bit anyway (2 ^ 64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 //// 18,446,744 TB of Memory).

Other than memory issues what other advantages would there be to a 128bit OS?

It’s hard to imagine 128-bit support being cooked into the desktop kernel, but it’s not unreasonable for Microsoft’s line of Server OSes. Several architectures, including Intel’s Itanium, Sun’s SPARC and IBM’s POWER line are expected to implement some semblance of 128-bit over the next five years. This timeline falls in line with Windows 8’s expected release date, which is no sooner than 2013.

128-bit processing would be good for encryption, compression, scientific modeling, genome sequencing, etc.