Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Windows 8 Is Ready

Posted by Soulskill on from the stick-a-fork-in-it dept.

New submitter drinkydoh writes "In an announcement today, Microsoft has finally said that Windows 8 is now complete. Microsoft has begun delivering RTM versions to manufacturers and the general availability of the tablets and computers using Windows 8 will be on October 26th. 'Microsoft's final milestone concludes almost two years of development for its new Metro-inspired Windows 8 software and marks the beginning of the release phase. Microsoft says MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to download it from August 15th. Windows Store will go live on August 15th. Developers will be able to access the final tools and submission process for Metro style apps at the Windows Dev Center later this month.'"

1 of 558 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Let the bitching begin.... by i_ate_god · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft is killing Silverlight because it was a stupid idea to begin with. Even then Flash was declining and HTML5 was the obvious winner.

    But killing off .net?! Where do you get that from?

    --
    I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...