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"As the final date, and dates, of the Windows 8 release process race towards us, the product continues to hit its early availability milestones. Today, Microsoft Intune customers can download the Windows 8 RTM build.\r\n\r\nThis access is actually slightly ahead of schedule, ZDNet reports, noting that &amp;quot;Intune users were slated to get the Windows 8 RTM bits on September 1,&amp;quot; and not today. I doubt that they are going to complain.\r\n\r\nIntune, as TNW has reported a number of times through the product's history, is a cloud-based tool that allows for the\u00A0management\u00A0and security of large numbers of computers.\r\n\r\nHere's the best part of today's news: Intune doesn't support Windows 8 quite yet, so if you are an Intune customer, and use that status to get the RTM build, you won't be able to use the product that gave you access to Windows 8, on Windows 8.\r\n\r\nTo refresh you, here's the list of dates that matter for Windows 8, and its cousin Windows Phone 8, that we reported yesterday:\r\nOctober 25th:\u00A0Launch event for Windows 8 and the Surface RT, which will run Windows RT. The other Surface is not due until early 2013, remember. The big shindig will be in New York (damn).\r\n\r\nOctober 26th:\u00A0General\u00A0availability\u00A0of Windows 8. This is gospel, and is the hard stop for Windows 8.\r\n\r\nOctober 29th:\u00A0The official launch of Windows Phone 8, according to Mary Jo. This will take place in either San Francisco or LA. Microsoft, let\u2019s do it in the city by the bay. Please. Don\u2019t make us go to Southern California. Devices will go on sale, again according to the source, in the following weeks.\r\n\r\nOctober 30th:\u00A0BUILD kicks off. This event will, in my estimation, tie together each new product, and present a unified Microsoft front from a product perspective.\r\nCurrently, Microsoft is slowly letting different classes of enterprise customers snag access to Windows 8. This will continue through to October 26th. At that point, the years-long saga of Windows 8 creation will be complete at last.\r\n\r\nTop Image Credit:\u00A0Robert Scoble"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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