Windows 8 will be released October 26

Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows division at Microsoft’s Global eXchange sales partner for Microsoft eXchange (MGX), officially announced that the new version of the Windows 8 client operating system will be released on Friday October 26, 2012. “For the company, this is the biggest event at least in the last 17 years,” noted Sinofsky, implying the release of Windows 95.

Despite the fact that previously there were opinions that Microsoft may refuse to sell Windows 8 "in the box" in favor of upgrading existing systems, this was obviously not consistent. The release of the RTM version of Windows 8 is planned less definitely - at the beginning of August; Access to this version of Windows 8 will be provided to partners and customers of the corporation with a valid Software Assurance contract, as well as developers and specialists with MSDN / TechNet subscriptions.
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It is worth recalling that for users of outdated and not very Windows XP, Vista and 7 systems (including Russia and Ukraine) a special system for upgrading to Windows 8 Pro for $ 39.99 will be available .

Also for the first time release expected special version of Windows RT for tablets. The day before the official announcement of the release date of Windows 8, it became known that Intel and Microsoft are preparing 20 tablet models with Windows 8.

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