Was leaked some time ago by MSNerd

CES 2012: Windows 8 Beta (w/ WinStore Beta); ONM CTP; Tango1
MWC 2012: Tango2 Software Development Kit
MIX 2012: Windows 8 Release Candidate; ONM Beta; Tango2; Apollo announce; Kinect commercial Software Development Kit
E3 2012: Windows 8 RTM; Apollo Software Development Kit; Xbox SDK (3G Kinect games);
August 2012: Windows 8; ONM; Windows Phone 8; Xbox Store
Build 2012: XAML + XDE platform; Windows 8 PU DP; OSN announce
CES 2013: Windows 8 PU Beta
MWC 2013: Apollo+1 teaser
MIX 2013: HTML platform (Internet Explorer 11); Windows 8 PU Release Candidate; OSN Beta; Apollo+1 SDK
E3 2013: Xbox Loop announce; Windows 8 PU RTM
Build 2013: Windows 9 Developer Preview; OSN RTM; Xbox Loop launch
CES 2014: Windows 9 Beta;
MWC 2014: WPN (Windows Phone Next?) teaser;
MIX 2014: Windows 9 Release Candidate; WPN SDK; Kinect SDK update;
E3 2014: Kinect HP2 announce; Xbox PU announce
Build 2014: Windows 9 RTM (IE12); Windows9M RTM; OSN+1 CTP; Xbox PU preview
November 2014: Windows 9; Windows9M; Kinect HP2 launch; Xbox PU RTW

Xbox Loop?

Old, and generally believed the be fake.

Maybe not really fake...

Probably it isn't a leak. Probabily it isn't true.

But you should consider Microsoft probably will follow the same template that in W8:
Before - Alpha, microsoft says somethiiiing, but nothing from interest
BUILD - Developer Preview
CES - Beta
MIX - RC
Some months after- Release at stores

...not very difficult to invent.

Windows 8 PU

What is the "PU"??

I was going to ask the same question regarding Windows 8 PU, as far as the "PU" acronym stands for (Product Update, most likely).

From what I see, Windows 8 PU is to the original Windows 8 as the various updated releases of certain MS-DOS versions were to the original versions, as Windows 1.02, Windows 1.03, and Windows 1.04 were to Windows 1.01, as Windows 2.01 and Windows 2.03 were to Windows 2.00, as Windows/286 2.11 and Windows/386 2.11 were to Windows/286 2.1 and Windows/386 2.1, as Windows 3.00a was to Windows 3.0, as Windows 3.11 was to Windows 3.1, as Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was to Windows for Workgroups 3.1, as Windows 95 OSR 2.1 and Windows 95 OSR 2.5 were to Windows 95 OSR 2, as Windows 98 Second Edition was to Windows 98, as Windows NT 3.51 was to Windows NT 3.5, as the post-RTM builds of Windows 2000 were to Windows 2000, as the post-RTM builds of Windows XP were to Windows XP (yes, there were post-RTM builds of Windows XP, of which were the client counterparts of at least some of the continuing Whistler Server, later Windows .NET Server, briefly Windows .NET Server 2003, and finally Windows Server 2003 builds, ask air101 about those builds), as Windows Server 2003 R2 was to Windows Server 2003, and even as the post-RTM builds of Windows 7 were to Windows 7, before the continued development of Windows 7 was renamed to Windows 8.

From what I see, Windows 8 PU is yet another post-RTM release of Windows, in this case, of Windows 8 itself, as with the other updated releases of Windows, of which I've mentioned above in comparison to the older counterparts.

Or, it's all complete crap. Microsoft does not plan according to conferences, and they do not plan that far ahead - so many things will have completely changed past the year mark it's pointless trying.

Information is generally wrong since I know the new consoles are rolling out in 2014.

Stop relying on this information now.

Just SP rebranded.

Windows9M maybe mobile?

there was a PU for Vista, that is 'Platform Update'.
XAML + XDE ? Cross Device Experience ? XAML2JS ?

PU=Platform Update. When Microsoft has already stated publicly that a new Windows release will be every 3 years, I see no reason to believe otherwise.

I think you named enough examples, thank you...

There was a PU for Windows Vista (here: -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971644)

So why not a Platform Update for Windows 8?

No one said they're gonna make it for sure. No one also said they're not gonna make it. So...

Probably because the Platform Upgrade will be released for Windows 7, or not.

<ONM>? what is that?

the author said that ONM is OneNote Metro.

Does anyone know what OSN is? sorry i don't know some things

This should be fake.

Actually, I think it refers to the fact that many beta builds of Windows are timebombed, yet it seems to have been written in broken/"bad" English.

I think that it's fake that the dates were leaked.

They are invented. But they may be true.

Windows 8 will kill Windows XP with its power and speed

I thought it was impossible to predict what Microsoft will do. Anyways they change their minds daily, they don't really plan ahead too much. Who know though, right? This can be true, false, or partly true. The only thing stopping us from finding out is time.

Well if the list is to be believed, it will be announced "Build 2012" - so maybe no one knows yet?

However, this list looks fake. Microsoft doesn't plan their work around events schedules.