Windows 8 takes big RTM step toward consumers

Windows 8 takes big RTM step toward consumers:

Here's a view of the Windows 8 Release Preview from March. In a long-overdue step forward for Windows, that version showed off prototype trackpad drivers to let people to use multitouch gestures on their trackpads.
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Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)
Microsoft announced today that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM'd). (The final build number is 9200.)
At the same time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 also have reached the RTM milestone, given all of these products have been developed in lockstep with Windows 8. (I am not 100 percent sure if Windows RT also RTM'd simultaneously and do not believe Microsoft officials ever promised this would be the case.)
Microsoft officials said earlier this month to expect Windows 8 to RTM in the first week of August. (I modified this wording in my coverage to "by the first week of August," knowing the propensity of Windows execs to pad their dates a bit in order to never be late.) As those same execs also noted previously, ... [Read more]

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