The leading business and commercial news agency Bloomberg has reported that Microsoft will release the Windows 8 final version in October 2012. The design and development work for the latest version of the Windows OS is in final stages and the company is expecting to release it for consumers during the last quarter of the current year.
Taking a reference from the people who have information about the launch, Bloomberg reported that fewer than five devices are expected to run on the ARM on the chip architecture during the launch. These ARM chips are suitable for lighter and thinner mobile computing devices such as smartphone and tablets. With ARM chips, Microsoft wants to dilute the dominance and lead of Apple’s iPad in the global tablet market. The launch of Windows 8 on ARM chips becomes even more significant as recently iPad sold more than 3 million units of its new iPad in just three days of its launch. This latest Windows version will be the first to use ARM processors that are usually found in mobile computing devices. Its predecessor and current Windows version, Windows7 works only with Intel's technology.
Microsoft is expected to reveal its Windows 8 release plan and strategy during its event for industry partners in early April 2012. People who gave indications regarding the launch said that Microsoft is likely to give more details about timing and marketing for the latest OS during the event.
By launching the Windows 8 final version in October Microsoft intends to utilize the shopping spree of consumers worldwide on the occasion of Christmas and New Year. Christmas shoppers are expected to purchase the new software that works with touch-screen devices apart from laptops and desktop PCs. According to industry experts, if Microsoft misses the September-October timeframe then they will not have anything to ship in 2012. With the launch of Windows 8 final version Microsoft also aims to recover the lost sales to the iPad and refurbish the moribund PC market.
The crux of the launch will be the availability of Windows 8 on both ARM chips as well as Intel chips. So far the full version of Windows has never run on ARM chips so this adjustment is taking time. Even during the launch of test version of Windows 8 the software ran only on Intel chips. This time Microsoft wants to launch the Windows 8 running on both the chips. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows business has repeated several times that the company wants to launch both ARM and Intel-based software together.
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