Microsoft: Windows 8 To RTM In August

July 9th, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized

nk497 writes “Microsoft has confirmed Windows 8 will RTM the first week of August, with general availability in late October. Steve Ballmer suggested Microsoft expected Surface to sell “millions” of the 375m Windows 8 PCs expected to sell in the next year — spending much of the keynote talking about partners’ devices. From the article: ‘Tami Reller, chief financial officer and chief marketing officer of the Windows and Windows Live division, confirmed the release date at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto today, as she showed off a host of Windows 8 devices created by the software giant’s manufacturing partners.’”

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