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Windows 8 RTM to Hit in July 2011.

OoSuperMarioO · 2010-01-28 08:07:38

Late last year a roadmap shown at PDC 2009 revealed Windows 8 would see a '~2012' release. While that little tilde before 2012 had us believing it would be more like the first half of 2013 and Microsoft was just affording itself some wiggle-room, it looks like we'll see the OS sooner than 2012. A former Microsoft employee by the name of Chris Green recently posted a visual graph detailing Microsoft's product lifecycle index. As msftkitchen points out, this graph contains an awful lot of information that can already be found from Microsoft's Support Lifecycle Index. However, Green has mentioned some things that aren't listed on the MS Lifecycle Index; namely dates for Windows 8, Windows 8 Server and Office 15. Green's graph have Windows 8 RTM down for July 1, 2011, with mainstream support from July 1, 2011 to July 1, 2016 and extended support from 2016 to July, 2021. Office 15 is pegged for a July 2, 2012 RTM; mainstream support from 2012 to June 30, 2017 and extended support from July 3, 2017 to July 5, 2022. Green hasMicrosoft Server 8 down for the same dates. So that's a July 2, 2012 RTM with mainstream support from 2012 to June 30, 2017 and extended support from July 3, 2017 to July 5, 2022. Green left Microsoft on January 12, at least, that's when he blogged about his leaving Microsoft. However, the update that has everyone talking was posted on December 9, presumably while he was still a Redmond employee.Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-8-RTM-Release-Date,9527.html

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#51 XFLYERMAT

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My god windows 7 is still very new and their already making a new one soon :o

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#52 gamer082009

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[QUOTE="polarwrath11"]Win 98 - success Win 2000 - fail Win xp - success Win vista - fail Win 7 - success Win 8 - fail? (Ignoring Windows NT)

Hmm.. maybe there is a pattern. I'm thinking there looking at $$$ signs and not how they could really evolve the Windows platform.

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#53 JigglyWiggly_

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[QUOTE="Daytona_178"]X360PS3AMD05

Windows 2000 wasn't fail? It was very successful, it Microsoft's first stable consumer OS.

Wasn't it for business?

Windows 2000 was for consumers. I liked it a lot because it blended in with Windows server very nicely. They had windows 2000 server as well. I ran Windows 2000 back in like 99, I liked it a lot. It got a lot of unneccesary hate.

I mean if you get any Windows XP user to go use Windows 2000, they won't really see a huge difference. I mean the start menu is the biggest change :P I hate that old fashioned one.

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#55 eagle63