{"id":41574,"date":"2012-07-19T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T08:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=41574"},"modified":"2012-07-19T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T09:21:19","slug":"windows-8-release-date-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/41574-windows-8-release-date-confirmed","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 release date confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has assured PC users that the upcoming Windows 8 OS will arrive on time, as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version will release on 26 October, which is almost exactly three years since the launch of the current iteration, Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>PC users will be able to upgrade their systems on release, or buy new systems with Windows 8 already pre-installed.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft are not ones to announce something long in-advance, but the company has made it evident that a new version of Windows will release every three years.<\/p>\n<p>While a new Windows version is exciting, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/41465-windows-8-and-gamers.html\" target=\"_blank\">what does Windows 8 mean for gamers?<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/41465-windows-8-and-gamers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Windows 8 and gamers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41105-windows-8-launch-in-sa-microsoft-has-no-details.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Windows 8 launch in SA: Microsoft has no details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Windows 8 computers here in October\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/54507-windows-8-computers-here-in-october.html\"><strong>Windows 8 computers here in October<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft Windows 8 upgrade plan revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/53841-microsoft-windows-8-upgrade-plan-revealed.html\"><strong>Microsoft Windows 8 upgrade plan revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft eases eager Windows fans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":41108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1051,2025,1727,5088,5782,5781,89],"class_list":["post-41574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-amd","tag-directx","tag-intel","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-8-release","tag-windows-8-release-date","tag-xbox-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41577,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574\/revisions\/41577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}