Exclusive Interview with Robert Morgan about 128bit
Oct 6, 2009 Windows 8 News
Thats right! an exclusive Interview with Robert Morgan:
I was able to get in contact with Robert Morgan and he agreed to an exclusive interview found only here at Windows 8 News! He wants questions from our viewers! So please submit any questions you’d like me to ask Mr. Morgan about 128bit or Windows 8 within 5 days. Part of the deal was that he will also no longer be posting public on his linkedin account as we have pointed out, it is public information.
**UPDATE** Robert’s linkedin account is no longer active.
Here are some of Robert’s previous updates *AS ALREADY REPORTED HERE FIRST:
“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.”
“Robert Morgan is using Hestia (custom software package) for experimenting with the processor for scientific analysis and 3D graphics. Error: Memory Latency? Always gotta be a challenge barrier, it’s gotta be a bug in Hestia. right?!”
“Robert Morgan is frustrated with process standards and regulations! Delays Delays!”
Post your questions for Robert Morgan in the comments and he’ll answer up to the 10 best!
Tags: 128 bit, Breaking News, Microsoft, Research & Development, windows 8, Windows 8 64bit, Windows 8 Blog, Windows 8 Book, Windows 8 Leak, Windows 8 News, Windows 8 x128, Windows 9
October 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
What does 128-bit really mean? 128-bit address space, or simply 128-bit general purpose registers with 128-bit arithmetic? I assume an address space extension won’t be necessary anytime soon…
Also, does it have any link with the introduction of the 256-bit YMM registers?
October 7th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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October 7th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Will the 128-bit operating system be backwards compatible with 64-bit and 32-bit applications ? If not, will these application still be able to run by using some kind of virtualization ?
October 8th, 2009 at 2:07 am
now just guessing…how much of a performance boost percentage would could we be expecting from running a 128-bit os over a 64-bit?
October 8th, 2009 at 2:24 am
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October 8th, 2009 at 6:00 am
If/When Windows 8 or 9 are released, will support for XP (finally) be dropped?
Because of how fast 7 was released after Vista, will support for Vista be dropped sooner rather than later?
October 8th, 2009 at 6:10 am
awesome blog, reading your stuff all over the place!
October 8th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Seems only to concern IA architecture on which are based Itanium CPUs.
Any plan from Intel to extend IA architecture from 64 bits to 128 bits instructions ?
Windows Server 2018 (Windows NT
Datacenter Edition may support that 
October 8th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Are there plans to work on the successor for the windows NT series ?
Because I feel like every new release of NT adds some bugfixes, UI slight changes, minor user features, and bloat, but no deep innovation, except maybe some great security ideas in Vista. NT series is mature, and is a great OS, but now is the time to move forward and try a new deep rewrite.
For those who want to see a new Windows that would get apart from the old WIMP paradigm and make better support for natural user interfaces.
For those who want to see a new Windows that would get rid of those old DOS and NT4 features and instead make use of code translation techniques on old programs (a well-known technique used in software virtualisation : same weight on the hard drive, but waaaay smaller and snappier kernel).
And for those who would like to see a new Windows that would be able to update itself without any need to reboot, even when there are kernel updates or whatever you may think is really important. I’ve made some work on this on my own mini-OS projects and it looks that this may be technically feasible, but requires some deep kernel rewrite.
So… Time for a revolution ?
October 8th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
128-bit computing might further grow the gap between processor speed and the speed of the other components of the computer (namely RAM and storage devices).
Since computers are being given almost the same uses since the Internet is mainstream (except for multimedia, which now occupies a more prominent position in end-user computing) . How would further processor performance add to the end-user overall computing experience in 2012 or beyond? Is it all about enhancing the ability to handle multimedia files? Handle ground-breaking new devices? Does Microsoft envision something else to pursue the research you’re working on?
And a personal question I’m interested in, since I’m a college student: To get a job as good as yours, and participate ins such advanced research positions how can youth begin? Any advice you can give to aspiring professionals?
Thank you very much.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
With the 128-bits how much RAM can Windows use ?
October 10th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Would windows 8 and 9 x128 fully support x32 and x64 software?
October 12th, 2009 at 3:51 am
In terms of feature set, what new or key technologies are likely to be the focus of developments?
October 14th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I’m going to ask a more basic question here. With 64 already in place will 32 bit code still be supported in Windows Version 8 how about Version 9? I know alot of very small companies that are struggling to keep up with what’s already in place right now. A friend of mine has a restaurant/bar and he still uses Lotus, he has literally hundreds of spreadsheets for everything from daily menu special print-outs to inventory management. I know this seems trivial to some small business is not able to take large leaps in terms of technology. A company of say 300 people where the entire management team is only 16 people and the rest of the work force is based mainly on people aged from 17 – 25 years in age, most of them not having had any previous work experience “at all” there is a learning curve here. Make the OS more intuitive as a matter of strict functionality not more powerful as a matter of bragging rights. Maintain what the OS already does (I’m hearing rumors of phasing out the Keyboard and Mouse) while adding to it’s list of capabilities.
That’s my 2 cents.
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:55 am
Apple is the best!
October 31st, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Apple is crap