While the Windows 8 Launch Event wasn’t exactly a huge reveal, given that we know pretty much all there is to know about Windows 8 at this point, it is still interesting to see how Microsoft decided to kick off the release of one of their most innovative, modern, controversial products ever. We saw a [...]
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Shortly after the announcement that Microsoft had hit the RTM milestone with Windows 8, along with the release of a schedule for distribution, the Enterprise version of the new OS was leaked across the web to a number of popular piracy sites. Naturally people are interested in trying out the finished product, but downloading illegally [...]
The beta period for Windows 8 has been fairly impressive and surprisingly well polished so far. The Release Preview is already largely viable as a daily use operating system. That said, many have been eagerly anticipating the day when Microsoft would declare the software ready to be released. That milestone has now been achieved. As [...]
After months of apparently accurate speculation, Microsoft has confirmed that we will see Windows 8 released in October. Specifically, Friday October 26th. This will include both sales of the operating system itself and Windows 8 PCs, rolling out the big release all at once. While this isn’t necessarily shocking news that nobody saw coming, it [...]
For the first time in the history of the product line, Microsoft is going to be doing away with retail sales of Windows. Instead of selling boxes with physical media included, users will be able to upgrade their existing systems entirely online via Windows Update and purchase new copies for systems built at home using [...]
Perhaps responding to the claims that many users still have not felt the need to upgrade their systems since before the release of Vista, Microsoft has decided to offer upgrade options to users of every Windows distribution from Windows XP to the present. Different situations will have different upgrade capabilities, but clearly everybody is included. [...]
In order to stay on track for an October release date, which we have to assume is the unstated goal given history and the timing relative to the holidays, Microsoft needs to get the Windows 8 RTM build ready to go soon. According to rumors out of the tech blog world, they are specifically looking [...]
According to a blog post that was accidentally published for a few minutes by Chuck Chan (a Microsoft executive) late Wednesday night, Windows 8 Release Preview will become available for download today. This is several days earlier than was originally anticipated. I’ll update this post as soon as download links go live. Stay tuned! UPDATE [...]
The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 has been great. It has given us all a chance to get to know the operating system a little better. While this has resulted in the expected crop of doomsday predictions for Microsoft among people unhappy with the Metro interface and its emphasis on touch-based interface, it has also [...]
Citing access to sources with inside information regarding the schedule surrounding Microsoft’s impending release of Windows 8, Bloomberg reports that we will likely be seeing the first computers and tablets to feature the new operating system go on sale this October. While roughly in line with several other estimates of probable release schedules, this is [...]
