Microsoft launching Windows 8 on October 26th for new and upgrade customers

Check this out.  Doesn't seem that long since Win7 was released:
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/07/18/windows-8-will-be-available-on.aspx

Brendan Spaar
http://www.latech.edu/techtalk/output/n-29.htm

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