Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of Windows NT family of operating systems. Development of Windows 8 started before the release of its predecessor, Windows 7, in 2009. It was announced at CES 2011, and followed by the release of three pre-release versions from September 2011 to May 2012. The operating system was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, and was released for general availability on October 26, 2012.Download latest Trail version
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| Release to manufacturing | August 1, 2012 [info] |
|---|---|
| General availability | October 26, 2012 [info] |
| Latest stable release | 8.1 (v6.3.9600) (October 17, 2013) [info] |
| Source model | Closed source and Shared source[1] |
| License | Trialware, physical, Microsoft Software Assurance, MSDN subscription,DreamSpark |
| Kernel type | Hybrid |
| Update method | Windows Update, Windows Store |
| Platform support | IA-32, x64, ARMv7[2] |
| Preceded by | Windows 7 (2009) |