Windows 8 in January 2013? Let’s not get all stupid – again.

It must be Friday because we have yet another stupid rumor going around that we can expect Microsoft to ship Windows 8 by January, 2013.

The rumors originated out of a Russian blog called Wzor and with some help from GeekSmack we get a translated version of the post that outlines the roadmap as they see it for Windows 8. While some of what is outlined make sense the last claim in the outline that Windows 8 will hit the shelves on Monday, January 7, 2013 is just ridiculous.

As Tom Warren at Winrumors pointed out the idea that Microsoft would once again launch any major version of Windows at the first of the year is stupid. Microsoft learned their lesson in this regard with Vista and I don’t believe that they have any intention of ever repeating that mistake again.

The other thing that this so-called roadmap is missing is the way that Microsoft is changing when it comes to how they release information about a product development cycle. We saw this with Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 where in both cases we had very little information to go on before they were actually releasing stuff.

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