Windows 8 Milestone 2 signed off this week, M3 to start next week

A recent roadmap shown off by [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Mary Jo Fowley over at ZDnet tells us a story about how the progress work for Windows 8 M2 was scheduled. The timeline also tells us that Microsoft is planning to start coding Windows 8 M3 next week on Monday.

According to the timetable, Windows 8 M2 coding began back on September 27, 2010 and it took slightly over a month to complete. On November 5, M2 was integrated where it began its bug fixing on December 6. The weeks to follow focused on more bug fixes and 'locking down' the code.

Windows 8 M3 is already scheduled to begin coding next week on February 28, 2011. If the development for M3 is anywhere near the length of time as M2, Windows 8 RTM would be right on schedule for a mid-2012 release.

Another interesting thing to point out is that the final build candidate for Windows 8 M2 will be signed off on Wednesday, and the developers tasks will be assigned on Friday.

ThePro wrote:Amazing eh?

leakAddict wrote:Hey guys, while I appreciate your enthusiasm for a leak and to talk to Zuko, the fact is that he doesn't talk to everyone. We need to repect his privacy and get to the leaks when they are available. I don't want this to turn into a Zuko request thread Let's have fun and rest assured that when a leak happens, you guys will be able to download it on this forum

ThePro wrote:

And i'll probably be allowed to repost it somewhere else, right?

leakAddict wrote:

ThePro wrote:

And i'll probably be allowed to repost it somewhere else, right?

Lol, if you want to you can, but some forums don't let you post links

ThePro wrote:

It's 2 spanish forums, one has been waiting for windows 8 since the first news, and i'm the only one that's into beta stuff

Then there's another forum that will probably fill me up with points for posting the download

Both allow piracy and illegal stuff

leakAddict wrote:Hey guys, while I appreciate your enthusiasm for a leak and to talk to Zuko, the fact is that he doesn't talk to everyone. We need to repect his privacy and get to the leaks when they are available. I don't want this to turn into a Zuko request thread Let's have fun and rest assured that when a leak happens, you guys will be able to download it on this forum

hoak wrote:
Heeey! I didn't mean to suggest anyone hassling the feller or hitting him up for access to anything! What I meant was to make him aware of the forum as a venue where he could post information if he was interested as it could offer more anonyminity then Twitter, and I can't stand Twitter...

ThePro wrote:Yeah, it's a small forum

My tip though would be to get a real forum in a real webserver, and a domain, atleast a .tk