Windows8之家资讯：据国外媒体报道，近日微软副总裁卢因(Lewin)在采访中暗示表示，Windows 8的正式发布日期将在2012年秋天。

原文：We will be in market. If you look at the crystal ball and just say what happened in the past is a reasonable indicator of what our forward looking timelines will be and just speculate. We’ve made the point about having a developer conference later this year, and then typically we enter a beta phase, and then in 12 months we're in the market, so let’s make that assumption.

从目前掌握的情况来看，微软或将于2011年9月展示Windows 8操作系统，而Windows 8 Beta版也很有可能在同一时间与用户见面。