Microsoft has revealed that it will be releasing Windows 8 to the public this October, as previously planned.<\/p>\n
Speaking at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference this week, Tami Reller, VP of Microsoft, explained that the Windows 8 release date was set for late October and the RTM (release to manufacturer) date was penned in for the first week of August.<\/p>\n
Microsoft had hinted that it would look to release Windows 8 in October, but this is the first time the company has given any sort of confirmation.<\/p>\n
Tablet Time<\/strong><\/p>\n Reller also revealed that Microsoft has sold 630 million Windows 7 licenses to date, which is a 30 million uplift in sales from the company’s previous announcement in June.<\/p>\n There was also some talk of Microsoft Surface, but nothing concrete on the tablet’s release date.<\/p>\n Interestingly, Steve Ballmer did say that Surface was only a small part of Microsoft’s tablet strategy \u2013 and that the company will be relying on partners to release tablets with Windows 8 inside. The biggest rumour so far is that Samsung will be one of the first to release a Windows 8 RT tablet.<\/p>\n Price-wise, it is thought Microsoft Surface will be comparable to other ARM-based tablets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft has revealed that it will be releasing Windows 8 to the public this October, as previously planned. Speaking at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference this week, Tami Reller, VP of Microsoft, explained that the Windows 8 release date was set for late October and the RTM (release to manufacturer) date was penned in for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,39],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-news","category-windows-8","tag-windows-8-release-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}