What will happen next with Windows 8?

After the release of Windows 8 Release Preview, users are questioning what Microsoft will do with Windows 8 in the near future to complete the launch date this fall.

Some selected and tested partners can be offered a Release Candidate (or the new Release Preview) to be able to refine applications for Windows 8 before Released to Manufacturing (RTM) version published. Among the upcoming changes may be Microsoft will remove the current Windows Aero interface after Microsoft officials admitted this in a blog post published in early June. The company will also change the code. to prevent users from adding a Start button or changing the boot system directly to the desktop from a 3rd party application.

According to information from Microsoft, the final stage of RTM development will take place in about 2 months if all goes well. This means that the RTM version can be completed on July 30, and much of the information also suggests that Microsoft has revealed to some important people in the company that the date of the RTM completion is in July. If nothing changes, the latest RTM version of Windows 8 will be released within the next 2 months.

Once Windows 8 RTM is released, Microsoft will provide this version to partners who are computer manufacturers, companies that install Windows 8 into their new computer products. Business users with an agreement with Microsoft will get the option to download Windows 8 this summer, right after RTM appears. Meanwhile, retail customers who want to buy a new operating system or who want to install it on a new computer will have to wait a few months to get Windows 8. Expected at the upcoming Computex in Taiwan , users can see the appearance of some new designed devices running Windows 8 demos.

According to rumors, Microsoft will officially launch Windows 8 around October, the same thing with Windows 7 when it released the RTM version of the operating system in July and the official version was released in October. ten.

Once Windows 8 comes to customers, Microsoft hopes to continue to update and change the code soon and often, just like what it did with Windows 7 through the "servicing" process . This means that there will be bug fixes and updates regularly through the Microsoft Windows update mechanism.

But now, the Release Preview version of Windows 8 will give users a basic look at how Windows 8 works when they are installed on new computers and tablets this year.

That can be said that when Windows 8 does not run on many existing computers and it will be difficult for users to get a comprehensive review of how this operating system works on computers and tablets until about Last year. Since Microsoft released Windows 8 ARM for tablets to counteract the expansion of the iPad, users can evaluate the power of this platform for tablets.

Obviously, time can tell all, users still can not know all the things behind the operating system platform Microsoft put a lot of expectations.