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Will Windows 8 be available in 128-bit?

Ron Barrett has heard the rumors that Microsoft is planning on releasing its next release of Windows in a 128-bit version. He writes, "When I read that note my first reaction was, 'YES!' I love the idea of speeding up the operating system and allowing for more RAM, more processing power…MORE…MORE…MORE! But before I got too excited about this idea, I decided to do some investigating ... a 128-bit OS would be able to handle memory addressing up to 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 bytes or 281,474,976,710,656 yobibytes." Why would you need all that addressable memory on a desktop?

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  • Outlook 2010 to become Facebook for the enterprise Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Wed, 11/18/2009

    Microsoft today announced a plugin for Office 2010 that let's users access third-party social networks through Outlook.The tool is dubbed Outlook Social Connector. While it's a great concept to turn e-mail into a social network, it may suffer the fate of many cool ideas from Microsoft: iffy execution.

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  • Top 10 PDC sessions for an enterprise .Net developer Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 11/12/2009

    There will be over 150 sessions at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference, next week at the Los Angeles convention center. Many of them will be aimed at commercial programmers building their next Windows app. So I asked a Microsoft spokesperson if she could pinpoint what Microsoft thinks will be the most important sessions for an enterprise developer. I also came up with a list of my own picks.

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  • Microsoft's Teamprise acquisition means nothing for open development Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Tue, 11/10/2009

    Despite a misleading press release, Microsoft's purchase of the Teamprise toolset means almost nothing for Visual Studio and doesn't make Visual Studio a tool for cross-platform support. Microsoft is taking over the previous add-on product Teamprise which works with Team Foundation Server.

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