<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> made a public release of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Windows 8">Windows 8</a> and made it available on new PCs.<sup about="#mwt56" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_26#cite_note-9" id="mwASc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASg">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt53" class="citation web cs1" id="mwB2A"><a class="external text" href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-8s-delivery-date-october-26/" id="mwB2E" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Windows 8's delivery date: October 26"</a>. <i id="mwB2I">ZDNET</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB2M">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB2Q">2022-10-26</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt53" class="Z3988" id="mwB2U" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=ZDNET&amp;rft.atitle=Windows+8%27s+delivery+date%3A+October+26&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Fwindows-8s-delivery-date-october-26%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+26"></span></span>