{"id":46122,"date":"2012-03-20T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46122"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:42:17","slug":"windows-8-debut-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/46122-windows-8-debut-in-october.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 debut in October?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> should finish work on Windows 8 \u201cby summer\u201d, which could hint at an October release date for the upcoming operating system (OS).<\/p>\n<p>This is according to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>, who cite \u201cpeople with knowledge of the schedule\u201d as their source.<\/p>\n<p>There are also reports that there will be fewer than five <a title=\"ARM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360516-ARM-architecture\">ARM<\/a> devices running the <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> 8 OS at launch. In addition, more than 40 x86 computers will run the new OS at launch.<\/p>\n<p>While Microsoft declined to comment on the report, an October release falls in line with previous predictions by analysts.<\/p>\n<p>The software giant will however reveal details surrounding the Windows 8 release schedule at an industry event in April.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft plans to release the Windows 8 on ARM devices at the same time as it releases the system on x86 chips that are traditionally found in personal computers, according to a company blog post last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur collective goal is for PC makers to ship [Windows on ARM devices at] the same time,&#8221; wrote <a title=\"Steven Sinofsky\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/408695-Steven-Sinofsky\">Steven Sinofsky<\/a>, Windows president at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-10805_3-57400287-75\/windows-8-reportedly-set-for-october-debut\/?tag=mncol\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft may release the final version of its Windows 8 operating system this October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":33840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2752,123,9267,807],"class_list":["post-46122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-arm","tag-microsoft","tag-steven-sinofsky","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46124,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122\/revisions\/46124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}