According to the statement of the corporate vice president of Windows, Windows 8 is on track to be released to manufacturing the first week of August, and will be available by late October 2012. The statement is also with a connotation that Windows Server 2012 will be released to manufacturing by the first week of August. But the server bits will not be available to customers until September.
The
business users (volume licensees with Software Assurance) will have access to
the final Windows 8 bits "as early as the beginning of August."
The
October general availability date has been rumored for months. A late July RTM
date for Windows 8 has been rumored for a while. Microsoft has sold 630 million
Windows 7 licenses to date, up from 600 million at the beginning of June.
The
Windows team's @BuildWindows8 account on Twitter recently repeated that the
official guidance was that as of May 31, Microsoft execs had said to expect
Microsoft to enter the "final phases" of the RTM process "in
about two months," assuming all was seen as progressing well by Microsoft
and its partners.
Microsoft
officials said in late June that the newly announced Microsoft Surface
PC/tablets running Windows RT would be available at the time Windows 8 is
generally available. So that means the ARM-based Surfaces will be out by then,
one would expect.
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