{"id":12501,"date":"2012-04-25T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12501"},"modified":"2012-04-25T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T11:58:00","slug":"mark-your-calendar-windows-8server-2012-rc-in-the-first-week-of-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12501","title":{"rendered":"Mark Your Calendar: Windows 8\/Server 2012 RC In The First Week of June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Snover of Microsoft has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/windowsserver\/archive\/2012\/04\/24\/windows-server-2012-release-candidate-timing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> yesterday\u2019s news (which was heavily retweeted) that Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate will be released to the public in the first week of June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12259\" target=\"_blank\">saying for a while<\/a> that the Windows 8 schedule looks very like the one for Windows 7.&#160; It\u2019s a little&#160; different (one month behind) but not that different.&#160; My gut is saying it\u2019s an August RTM (on MSVL, MSDN, and TechNet soon after) and an October launch\/GA (LAR\/distributor pricelist for new volume license purchases, OEM machines, on the shelves).<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be long after that when we have SP1 for System Center with support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.<\/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-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5bfbb7f9-ea2a-4407-800b-1bd971b33a6f\" 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+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Snover of Microsoft has confirmed yesterday\u2019s news (which was heavily retweeted) that Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate will be released to the public in the first week of June 2012. I\u2019ve been saying for a while that the Windows 8 schedule looks very like the one for Windows 7.&#160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Your Calendar: Windows 8\/Server 2012 RC In The First Week of June&#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":[109,118],"class_list":["post-12501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501","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=12501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}