Microsoft Hints To An August 2012 Win 8 Launch
Microsoft said that it would reveal more about Windows 8 in September, but it didn't give anything away about when customers would start using the new OS. However, Microsoft Corporate VP Dan'l Lewin gave hints at a start-up LAUNCH event at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus that Windows 8 could be on target for a Fall 2012 release.
TechRadar quoted Lewin saying: "we will be in market - if you look at the crystal ball and just say what happened in the past is a reasonable indicator of what our forward looking timelines will be and just speculate - we've made the point about having a developer conference later this year, and then typically we enter a beta phase, and then in 12 months we're in the market, so let's make that assumption."
Microsoft will be holding its BUILD conference this year September 13 to 16 in Anaheim.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
they better do it before that day....the world is said to end on the 21st, lol
i hate the 7iu, and xp does damn near everything else but dx10 and 11 though i have an 11 card.
http://www.shacknews.com/article/68940/kinect-windows-sdk-now-available
Fixed that for ya!
LOL
Windows 7, people say XP gives everything they want?
How about native DVD playback, drag and drop DVD burning, homegroup, remote streaming.
Before you say "well XP can do that" - no it doesn't, the additional prgrams you have installed do that, which unless you are a frequent flyer on dodgy torrent sites will cost extra money, certainly more than the cost of upgrading to Windows 7 where all that stuff is included at the start and doesn't add to the bloat of installing all that extra crap.
Where are you getting the notion it will not support VS2010??
Most people who want to do those things on XP have already purchased those add on programs and are using them now. How would a frivolous upgrade save them money, again?
If you don't have a need for DX11 graphics or more than 4 GB of RAM, XP still works just fine.
Ya I'm confused as to why they thought coming out with a new OS so early would be a good idea.
I was a die hard XP user until i saw just how good Win7 was(and how awful support for xp 64 pro was and how bad it ran after i upgraded ram).
Until something ground breaking is released in a new OS i don't see any reason to upgrade to a new OS any time soon. DX12 included, unless it becomes the new dx9.
Well... honestly the upgrade's not so frivolous when you take into consideration that XP is reaching EOL, new software is ceasing to support it, and a large portion of XP systems are aging to the point of obsolescence. So yeah... People probably should just get the software, but folks looking for XP machines these days need to steer towards 7.