Rumor: Windows 8 rushed for April 2012 to fight iPad

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Microsoft may be stepping up the schedule for Windows 8 to help counter the iPad, a new tip from a reliable source says. Most have it shipping in late 2012 to keep with Microsoft's usually rigid three-year schedule, but ZDNet has been told Microsoft was pressing for a Release To Manufacturing (RTM) schedule of April 2012. The timing would have the OS shipping, not just mastered, by the mid-point ...

Source: Yahoo! News