Microsoft is moving forth with the development of its next flavor of Windows, codenamed Windows 8, but has yet to confirm a specific availability date for the platform.
Recent reports around the Internet suggest that the release timeframe for this OS might have been set for October.
Windows 7 was launched in October, three years ago, and Microsoft might be determined to celebrate its anniversary with the release of a new platform version.
This week at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, Janelle Poole, director of public relations of the Windows Business Group, suggested that fall could indeed be the release timeframe for Windows 8,
Pocket-lint reports.
"We haven't talked about the release date and we generally don't. We are talking milestone to milestone, so for us right now we're talking about the next milestone being the consumer preview happening in late February,” Janelle Poole reportedly stated.
"One of the things that I think is a good guideline though is we've always said that Windows releases come round about every three years and this year will be three years in October since we launched Windows 7. So I think that's a good guideline to consider."
It has been long rumored that Windows 8 will be completed by mid-2012, and that manufacturers will receive it around that time.
Systems powered by Windows 8 are expected to arrive on shelves in the second half of the year, and some OEMs have confirmed that at CES 2012.
"When the next generation of Windows launches, in the second half [of 2012], we will launch another wave of Ultrabook products," Acer CEO, J.T. Wang reportedly said during a press conference in Las Vegas.
Currently, Windows 8 is available for download as a Developer Preview, but
the pre-beta period is rumored to end before January is over. However, Microsoft will not make the Beta bits available for the public until late February.
You can download Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 M3 from Softpedia
via this link.
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