Windows 8 News » PDC 2009 http://windows8news.com The Latest Microsoft Windows 8 News, Rumours & Screenshots Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:33:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Windows 8 ‘Confirmed’ for 2012 Launchhttp://windows8news.com/2009/11/20/windows-8-confirmed-for-2012-launch/ http://windows8news.com/2009/11/20/windows-8-confirmed-for-2012-launch/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:52 +0000 Everton http://windows8news.com/?p=133
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    • ]]>     More and more evidence is emerging that Windows 8 will be released in 2012.  At this years Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC 2009), budding attendees managed to get their hands on two Windows roadmap slides that show ‘Windows 8′ launching in 2012:

    windows8roadmap1 600x450 Windows 8 Confirmed for 2012 Launch

    windows8roadmap2 600x453 Windows 8 Confirmed for 2012 Launch

    Now these slides don’t really provide any information that we didn’t know; Microsoft typically leave 3 years between each release and with Windows 7 launching this year, Windows 8 was always likely to be in 2012.  It is unlikely that Microsoft would pull Windows 8′s launch forward to 2011 because it would impact Windows 7 sales with customers delaying upgrades, and unlikely they would delay until 2013 as Windows 8′s development seems to be progressing quite nicely.

    Source: Microsoft Kitchen

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