Posted on Tuesday, August 07 2012 @ 18:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Verge
got its hands on photos of the retail packaging of Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro, the only boxed versions available in retail stores.
Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows RT will all be available on new PCs and tablets from October 26th, and upgrade versions will be available in stores or as an electronic software download. We understand that the packaging will be largely similar to the existing Windows 7 version, but we'll have to wait until Microsoft officially unveils it to see if the company has put its Windows 8 boxes on a diet — similar to its 37 percent weight loss from Vista to Windows 7.
