{"id":12259,"date":"2012-03-20T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T11:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12259"},"modified":"2012-03-20T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T11:09:23","slug":"windows-8-ga-in-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12259","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 GA in October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-03-19\/microsoft-said-to-finish-windows-8-in-summer-with-october-debut.html\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that Windows 8 will be generally available in October of this year.&#160; That\u2019s not so different to the Windows 7 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows7\" target=\"_blank\">schedule<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and reached general retail availability worldwide on October 22, 2009.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Therefore I won\u2019t be surprised to see Windows 8 (client and server) RTM in July or August.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:51632359-4167-4945-947d-cbddc29dce39\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 8<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg is reporting that Windows 8 will be generally available in October of this year.&#160; That\u2019s not so different to the Windows 7 schedule: Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and reached general retail availability worldwide on October 22, 2009. Therefore I won\u2019t be surprised to see Windows 8 (client and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 8 GA in October 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[109,119],"class_list":["post-12259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-server-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}