Windows 8 is coming in October (for most of you)

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Category: Industry News

Published on Monday, 16 July 2012 23:00

Written by Christian Dunn

As the day nears closer Microsoft is starting to provide more details.

Latest news it that they are on schedule for an August RTM release which will have the Microsoft support community excited followed by the retail release in October.

Keep your eye out for the upgrade path. News is that users with the Consumer Preview installed and those buying computers in the next few months will be able to upgrade for under $50 to the new release.

Now we just need to see some decent new hardware that is ready to roll by the time this great new OS comes around. I have been crash testing the latest Consumer Preview of Windows 8 on a variety of machines and my latest is about a 5 year old laptop. Goes surprisingly well and no crashes yet!!

Little hint though... if you are planning on to perform an install of Windows 8 onto an old machine, think again. Most of the drivers are missing. My trick? ... install Windows 7 then upgrade. Enjoy.