MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE?

[someguy123]

Was checking my netstat for something... to find this... My litecoin node on port 9333 connecting to a server owned by microsoft...

[ssvb]

It's probably just some random Microsoft employee illegally abusing his office computer to dig some LTC

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Yeah the tide proxy afaik is for the students at the MS Academy or whatever it was.

[cbeast]

Also remember that MS Research has some interest in cryptocurrencies.

[alexrussel1980]

haha now ms coders are being paid in ltc per line of code and i heard that  windows 9 will have 11 install dvds 

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haha now ms coders are being paid in ltc per line of code and i heard that  windows 9 will have 11 install dvds 

2 bluray disks surely. (if 4.7Gb/disk)

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[DeathAndTaxes]

haha now ms coders are being paid in ltc per line of code and i heard that  windows 9 will have 11 install dvds  

2 bluray disks surely. (if 4.7Gb/disk)

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Spinning shiny discs at high speeds to detected physical pits by a flashlight? How delightfully archaic.

My guess is Windows "9" likely will have no disk (but that won't stop the bloatware).

[Nachtwind]

My guess: There wont be a Windows 9
After Windows 8 they have to restart the whole damn thing to make up for the shame for removing everything vital from an operation system and adding useless bullshit...

[tiker]

I reading somewhere at MS actually has put together staff and have already started on Windows 9 & Windows 10..

The article was saying MS is working with Intel on Windows 9 with the goal of making it the first 128bit OS... and Windows 10 being the first 256bit OS...  I'll see if I can dig up that article again.

[DeathAndTaxes]

I reading somewhere at MS actually has put together staff and have already started on Windows 9 & Windows 10..

The article was saying MS is working with Intel on Windows 9 with the goal of making it the first 128bit OS... and Windows 10 being the first 256bit OS...  I'll see if I can dig up that article again.

I am willing to bet it was written by an idiot.

[Nachtwind]

quite certainly...

Microsoft is of course working on versions further than 9 and 10 but wouldnt be as stupid as to announce such stuff...
*just wishes Singularity was real*

[tiker]

There's a few... just search for windows 9 128 bit..

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-mulling-128-bit-versions-of-windows-8-windows-9.ars
http://www.osnews.com/story/22301/128-Bit_Support_in_Windows_8_9_
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48294

for example.. 

[Nachtwind]

There's a few... just search for windows 9 128 bit..

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-mulling-128-bit-versions-of-windows-8-windows-9.ars
http://www.osnews.com/story/22301/128-Bit_Support_in_Windows_8_9_
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48294

for example..  

Yeah... but those news are from 2009... and three years are a long time. Remember 3dfx? 3 Years can be a whole lifetime... ,0)

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There's a few... just search for windows 9 128 bit..

would have been more realistic with the 128qubit OS...

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[Remember remember the 5th of November]

quite certainly...

Microsoft is of course working on versions further than 9 and 10 but wouldnt be as stupid as to announce such stuff...
*just wishes Singularity was real*

Are you referring to the PC game?

[Nachtwind]

quite certainly...

Microsoft is of course working on versions further than 9 and 10 but wouldnt be as stupid as to announce such stuff...
*just wishes Singularity was real*

Are you referring to the PC game?

No. Have a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system%29

[SgtSpike]

Has anyone run the same analysis on Bitcoin nodes?  See what sort of places connected IPs resolve to?

[film2240]

This is turning out to be quite interesting.First GPU mining possible with LTC,now microsoft running an LTC node.LTC is certainly becoming an interesting currency for me.I want to know how to check this is cmd prompt in win 7 to see if my LTC connects to microsoft.

Sounds like that employee is mining for LTC as well.

[DeLorean]

This is turning out to be quite interesting.First GPU mining possible with LTC,now microsoft running an LTC node.LTC is certainly becoming an interesting currency for me.I want to know how to check this is cmd prompt in win 7 to see if my LTC connects to microsoft.

Sounds like that employee is mining for LTC as well.

It's a command line utility called "netstat". It shows the various connections you have with their port numbers. -n is probably the switch he used.

[Syke]

The article was saying MS is working with Intel on Windows 9 with the goal of making it the first 128bit OS... and Windows 10 being the first 256bit OS...  I'll see if I can dig up that article again.

I've built servers with up to 256 GB RAM. For the sake of estimates, let's say 1 TB RAM is about tops right now. That's 2^40. If we extrapolate with Moore's law, we'll max out 64-bits (2^64) in about 36 years. (Realistically it's going to be a lot longer than that) There's no way MS is going to support Win9 40 years from now. There's no 128-bit hardware in the works, so there's no point in designing 128-bit software for the foreseeable future.

256-bit computing will likely never happen.