Rumor: Windows 8 Set for September Reveal
The Windows 8 talk has really been heating up over the last week or so and today brings speculation about a possible release date for the OS.
It’s been 18 months since Microsoft’s Windows 7 hit retailers’ shelves and if the latest reports are to be believed, the beta of the next version Windows will arrive in six month’s time. Microsoft has announced that the company’s annual Professional Developers Conference will kick off September 13 and run through to September 16.
Considering Microsoft debuted the first public beta of Windows 7 at PDC 2008, Business Insider is leading the way in speculating that PDC 2011 will include a demo of the first public beta of Windows 8.
If we’re to follow Microsoft’s Windows 7 release schedule, the PDC 2011 public beta of Windows 8 will give way to a fall 2012 shipping date for the completed version of the operating system.

Vista was 6, 7 was 6.1.
Is Windows 8 going to be 6.2, 7 or 8 ?
Will get a copy from MSDN and try it out, quite happy with win7 at the moment, cant see me needing to upgrade apart from a couple of niceties.
lol
They've been leaving the traditional desktop pc focus and aiming for Cloud computing and portable devices, so I dont think the next OS will really be a major improvement on perfomance and stability as Win7 is.
Besides, the new office-like explorer interface sucks....
+1
MS has been playing Apple for a while now. They want you to buy a new PC every year as your not-so-old PC isn't qualified to run their latest, fastest, most stable, most secure and most exciting OS.
Also, there should be one and only one version- just "Windows 8" with all the features of Ultimate. None of this "Home Premium (since it's all but premium), Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate" segmentation. Just "Windows 8".
And, it's going to be Windows 6.2.over7601.