Microsoft to launch Windows 8 on October 2012-Bloomberg report

According to the report from Bloomberg,Microsoft will launch it's new Windows 8 in the coming October 2012.
Computer and tablet makers,known as OEM's for ''original equipment manufacturers'' will have Windows 8 powered PC's ans tablets ready to sell in October,Bloomberg said.

The Windows 8 OS will come in two flavors-the one for the traditional PC's and business grade slates and tablets,and Windows on ARM (WOA) for consumer tablets.

Microsoft declined to comment on Bloomberg's report,which cited what the news organization called ''people with knowledge of the schedule'' ,who asked for anonymity.

Neither a summer wrap-up or October sales launch would be a surprise.Microsoft finished Windows 7 three years ago this July and launched that OS on October 22,2009.New PC's went on sale at the same time,just as the holiday shopping season was getting into gear.

Analysts have expected that Microsoft is shooting for a similar fall release of Windows 8,possibly in October,to follow in Windows 7's successful footsteps and avoid a repeat of the timing of Windows Vista,which missed 2006's holiday season when it fell behind schedule and didn't ship until January 2007.

Microsoft has not disclosed a release date for Windows 8 but recently hinted that it would be later this year.

The release of Windows 8 consumer preview before two months was a clue that a fall 2012 debut was in the cards.

Microsoft released the first Windows 7 developer-oriented build at the end of September 2008,offered a public beta in January 2009,and pushed the final version into shelves the third week of October 2009.

Although the Windows 8 Consumer Preview appeared about seven weeks later in the calender than the Windows 7 beta-at the end of February compared to later years January-Windows 8 developer preview launched a month earlier than Windows 7's :in mid-September 2011 compared with October 2008.Those differences might make the two schedules a wash.