nsane.forums Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 A new rumor claims to have gotten hold of Microsoft's road map for the beta version of Windows 8, claiming that Microsoft is aiming to show the final beta version internally on January 30.Windows 8 is officially still in its pre-beta phase of development, with Microsoft only saying that the next version of its PC operating system will be released to the public in a beta form sometime in late February. A few days ago, the well known Windows 8 screenshot leak web site Winunleaked.tk claimed that the current version number for Windows 8 is up to 8176.Now that same web site has claimed to have gotten a hold of Microsoft's current development road map for Windows 8. It claims that from now until January 23, Windows 8 will be considered to be in pre-beta form at Microsoft. On January 23, Windows 8 will go into what is known as Beta Escrow.After that, the article claims that Microsoft testers will then vote on which of the Windows 8 builds will in fact be the final beta build with the decision being made on January 28. Finally, the article claims that the beta build will be shown at an internal Microsoft preview on January 30. The target build number for the final beta will be 8200.winmain_win8b1.Of course, none of this has been confirmed by Microsoft itself, but if true, the timeline certainly tracks with what Microsoft has already said about the Windows 8 beta being released to the public in February. Again we are looking to Microsoft's CES 2012 keynote address, to be held later this week in Las Vegas, for more information on Windows 8 release plans. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Is there any news on when the final build will be released? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beer Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 haven't heard anything about final, but if I see something I will post it B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice man Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 thnxs for the news :(: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Here's the way I look at it: Win8 is being run by the same guy who ran Win7, and the beta for it was released in January. It went RTM in late July, though only hit retail in late October, an artificially late date. Win8 is a more ambitious product relative to Win7 than Win7 was to Vista due to the new UI. When you couple that with the fact that the public beta will trail Win7's by at least six weeks, then I don't see Win8 RTM'g until September or so, with retail availability (not that that date is important to people around here) circa November. The key date there is September: just barely enough time for OEMs to get their hands on it, test it, and incorporate it into PCs for the holidays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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