Microsoft: Windows 8 To RTM In August 343
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.'"
Update: Release Delayed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"showed off a host of Windows 8 devices" (Score:5, Funny)
I hear one of them was given a Surface tablet to use in place of his newspaper. The fly never saw it coming.
Better yet (Score:3, Funny)
Released to WTF sounds more appropriate.
Plus a few dozen A/Cs doing sarcastic summations (Score:5, Funny)
... of the discussion. You're as predictable as everyone else.
Only the GUI is bad? Well thats ok then (Score:4, Funny)
I mean who uses the GUI to do much work in Windows anyway? Pfffft , cmd.exe is all I need!
Just wait for Win8 SP1 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Is this only for tablets (Score:5, Funny)
It's Microsoft's attempt to build a new desktop OS that works well and that people like, but to improve usability in the face of their massive market losses to Apple which are mostly predicated on usability.
It's also an attempt to shortcut their way into the mobile space by adding a mobile UI to their existing product. Their mobile OS is failed on phones, but there's no big competitor to Apple in the tablet space right now, and MSFT hopes they can be that.
Basically, MSFT is years behind in just about every product line they have, but are still following their tried-and-true, packaging up other peoples' ideas with Windows logos, and selling them as innovation.
Re:"showed off a host of Windows 8 devices" (Score:5, Funny)
Related Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql71toSXNRY [youtube.com]
Re:Original anouncement (from Microsoft, not PCPPr (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Is this only for tablets (Score:2, Funny)
Eh hem... It's "Vista and I." Perhaps you weren't paying attention to the article on whether grammar matters anymore.
Re:Only thing bad about Win8 is Metro (Score:5, Funny)
Should have gone for a traditional sandwich.