Microsoft Suggests Windows 8 release date

Dan’l Lewin the corporate vice president for strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft today hinted when speaking at the start-up LAUNCH event at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus that Windows 8 would be released in Autumn 2012 .

Here is what Lewin said-

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 is organizing Build in September 2011 where they would be showing next version of Windows and most probably at that time Windows 8 Beta would be launched, so exactly after a year that is in September 2012 we can see the RTM version of Windows 8, which is exactly 3 years after Microsoft RTMed Windows 7.