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.
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Who cares about Win8??? It's irrelevant. The only way Microsoft can make it relevant is if they again make D3D12 a Windows 8 feature only.
Consider most games do not make use of D3D11 (indeed most still use D3D9 due to being devolped for a console and ported) this would not make it relevant either.