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It's going to happen soon. AmD's high end consumer model is already very close to that number. When these become commonplace, say in 8 years, someone might find something fun or productive to do with 64 cores, and it's gonna suck if your OS is the bottleneck.

> When these become commonplace, say in 8 years

Someone is going to run an OS from 2020 on a brand new machine in an age where 64 threads is common place ?

These things get segmented according to market - home is tailored to suit commonplace.

You mean all those people still running Windows 7 in 2020?

On modern computers ?

By the time it happens MS will support it in Home edition. I remember that Win2000 for example supported something like 2 or 4 CPUs in standard edition and you had to buy server editions or even datacenter edition for more.

Probably. Once upon a time I hit the ram limit for Windows 7 Home of 16GB.

Then 8 jumped to 128GB.

Buy a 64-core processor and futureproof against the coming 64-core Windows