The Beans Have Been Spilled: Microsoft To Launch Windows 10 In Late July

There are a couple of different things you expect to hear during a financial earnings call: finance updates, questions from investors, and of course, forward-thinking statements. What you don’t often expect to hear is a an outing of a launch date for some other company’s product.

Thanks to AMD’s president and CEO Lisa Su, that trend has been bucked. In response to a question that revolved around Q2 action, Su said, “What we also are factoring in is, you know, with the Windows 10 launch at the end of July” – and the “you know” is definitely appropriate at this point.

If that launch window proves true, it’s an interesting time of year to push a brand-new OS to market. However, as it beats the new school year by about a month, it could be that Microsoft is hoping students will finally update their aging Windows 7 machines and get something fresher.

This raises an interesting question, though: Intel’s sixth-gen Core processors, dubbed Skylake, are supposedly set to launch in August. Are Intel’s and Microsoft’s schedules going to align well enough to assure that new student notebooks and desktops feature both the new OS and CPU? Let’s hope so, because Skylake is going to be bringing a lot of cool stuff to the table (DDR4, PCIe 4.0, Thunderbolt 3.0).

Nonetheless, since the initial public preview build of Windows 10 was released in October, there have been five others to come out. The last one, 10049, introduced the Spartan Web browser, and it hopefully won’t be too much longer before a follow-up build is released, fixing bugs related to that build, along with other feature rollouts – if Microsoft in fact plans to release more before the final build.

Things are beginning to get a little interesting, though. Windows 10 is the first OS that the majority seems to be in favor of, and it might very well appease those who hated Windows 8 so much. As it appears, it won’t be much longer before we figure that out for sure.