Will Windows 8 Ship in July or October?

Rumors suggest that Microsoft

MSFT

will ship its long-awaited operating system

With an anticipated release date of October 2012, Microsoft was not expected to release Windows 8 this summer. But Apple

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release OS X Mountain Lion in July, providing the Mac maker with the perfect opportunity to steal Microsoft's thunder. According to

, that has not changed. Windows 8 might be delivered to manufacturers in July, but it will not actually be released to the public until October.

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