{"id":55181,"date":"2012-07-19T08:20:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T06:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=55181"},"modified":"2012-07-19T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T06:46:41","slug":"windows-8-will-arrive-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/55181-windows-8-will-arrive-on-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 will arrive on time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday its new, touch-friendly Windows 8 operating system will be on sale October 26, almost exactly three years after the launch of Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>That means customers will be able to upgrade old PCs to the new system on that date, or buy new hardware with the software already installed at stores such as Best Buy.<\/p>\n<p>The company generally does not announce public release dates until close to the event, but has often stated that it aims for a new version of Windows every three years.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said earlier this month Windows 8 would be released by the end of October.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/55003-microsoft-office-brought-to-tablet-pcs.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft Office brought to tablet PCs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Office 2013 customer preview launched \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/54949-office-2013-customer-preview-launched.html\"><strong>Office 2013 customer preview launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft Office 2013 announced \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/54957-microsoft-office-2013-announced.html\"><strong>Microsoft Office 2013 announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Windows 8 computers here in October \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/54507-windows-8-computers-here-in-october.html\"><strong>Windows 8 computers here in October<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft Office 365 launched in SA \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/53771-microsoft-office-365-launched-in-sa.html\"><strong>Microsoft Office 365 launched in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software giant assures PC users that Windows 8 will hit its expected release date<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":54583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,807,451,13227],"class_list":["post-55181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-8-release-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55181"}],"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\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55191,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55181\/revisions\/55191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}