Windows 8 Public Beta in February 2012

During a San Francisco press event yesterday Microsoft announced that a public beta of Windows 8 would be available sometime in late February 2012.

This is great news but it looks like it will miss a release at CES 2012 in January next year. Hopefully Microsoft will demo a near final beta copy at this trade show.

Other details announced at this press event was that the Developer Preview of Windows 8, which was released during the Microsoft Build conference in September 2011, has so far been downloaded over 3 million times and the Windows app store aptly called "Windows Store" will also be available with the public beta of Windows 8.

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