Posted on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 13:48 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TPU
reports Microsoft partners and enterprise customers will receive Windows 8 as early as August, while the general public will have to wait until October.
Along with availability to enterprises, Microsoft will commence the Windows 8 Commerce platform, which means developers of apps for the Metro UI can start monetizing their works.
Windows 8 will get its big sales push at this year's Christmas sales season, when the software will be sold through major sales channels, such as retail, OEM (pre-installed) and special (student, university, government). For those who didn't quite get blown away by Windows 8 (through its Consumer Preview), Windows 7 will be supported looking deep into this decade. The operating system has currently passed the 640 million mark for the number of licenses sold, making it the best selling OS in computing history.
