Microsoft confirms public preview of Windows Blue in late June
Summary: Microsoft Windows engineering chief Julie Larson-Green says a public preview of Windows Blue will be out for all Windows 8 users at the end of June.
By
Mary Jo Foley for
All About Microsoft
May 7, 2013 -- 19:19 GMT (12:19 PDT)
Microsoft will make available to anyone who has Windows 8 a preview of Windows Blue in June.
That's according to Julie Larson-Green, the head of Windows engineering, who made those remarks during the
Wired Business Conference on May 7.
The timing isn't a surprise, given that
Microsoft's Build 2013 developer conference is slated for the last week of June. Larson-Green said that Windows Blue will be available at the end of June to anyone with Windows 8 via the Windows Store.
Update: Does this also mean there will be a public consumer preview of Windows RT Blue at the same time? I asked and a Microsoft spokesperson told me the company had no comment. Tipsters have said previously that
there will be a version of the Blue update for Windows RT later this year, however.
According to previous tips and leaks, Microsoft is close to completing what's believed to be the second internal milestone build, known as the Milestone Preview, of Windows Blue. Shortly after that, Microsoft is expected to make its
one-and-only Windows Blue public preview available to consumers.