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Windows 8 Pro for Small and Midsize Businesses

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This week we celebrated the release of Windows 8 across the globe, with a huge kick-off in New York where we officially launched Windows 8 to the world.  Windows 8 is available for everyone to purchase – including small and midsize businesses. Let’s walk through some key features and highlight the benefits some of customers are already seeing. (more…)

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Windows 8 Computers Will be on Sale in October This Year

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Computers with the next version of the Windows operating system, Windows 8, will be on sale in October this year. The announcement was made by Microsoft in Toronto, but a specific sales date was not announced. According to most of the analysts, the Windows 8 PCs will be available in the market during the holiday period so that more and more customers could go for it. (more…)

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview is Finally Here!

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Microsoft finally compiled the public Windows 8 Consumer Preview build, 8250 (Beta version). The public release of the following build its scheduled for later today 29th February. Microsoft announced that they would unveil the Consumer preview version of Windows 8 today  during the Mobile World conference in Barcelona, Spain. The estimated time when Windows 8 consumer preview would be available for download is 3:00 PM (Barcelona local time ).  (more…)

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Windows 8 to RTM in April 2012

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There have been all manner of rumours about Windows 8 in the last few months and some of them have proven to be true.  Respected ZD Net journalist Mary-Jo Foley has come into some information on Microsoft’s planned timetable for their next generation OS. (more…)

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Windows 8 release date hinted by Microsoft Executive

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Dan’l Lewin the corporate vice president for strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft today hinted when speaking at the start-up LAUNCH event at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus that Windows 8 would be released in Autumn 2012 . (more…)

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2012 Release For Windows 8, Ballmer Reiterates

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At a Microsoft Developer Forum in Japan today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed what we’ve all been assuming: the company plans to release Windows 8 in 2012, just about three years after the release of Windows 7.

Unfortunately, that’s as specific as the famously enthusiastic CEO cared to be, and no new features or details about the release were discussed, though we can glean some tidbits from his remarks. (more…)

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