{"id":18189,"date":"2012-07-19T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=18189"},"modified":"2012-07-19T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:36:09","slug":"microsoft-windows-8-gets-official-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/18189\/microsoft-windows-8-gets-official-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Windows 8 gets official release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday its new, touch-friendly Windows 8 operating system will be on sale October 26, almost exactly three years after the launch of Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>That means customers will be able to upgrade old PCs to the new system on that date, or buy new hardware with the software already installed at stores such as Best Buy.<\/p>\n<p>The company generally does not announce public release dates until close to the event, but has often stated that it aims for a new version of Windows every three years.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said earlier this month Windows 8 would be released by the end of October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft starts off financial year a little sour \" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/17164\/microsoft-starts-off-financial-year-a-little-sour\/\"><strong>Microsoft starts off financial year a little sour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/16964\/microsoft-writes-off-6-2-billion-from-worthless-acquisition\/\"><strong>Microsoft writes off $6.2 billion from \u201cworthless\u201d acquisition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/16061\/microsoft-unhappy-with-motorola-settlement-offer\/\"><strong>Microsoft unhappy with Motorola settlement offer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/13544\/motorola-infringed-on-microsoft-texting-patents-court\/\"><strong>Motorola infringed on Microsoft texting patents \u2013 court<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday its new, touch-friendly Windows 8 operating system will be on sale October 26, almost exactly three years after the launch of Windows 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,169,1794],"class_list":["post-18189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18195,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18189\/revisions\/18195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}