Microsoft sends out invites for a October 25 Windows 8 launch event in New York

As suspected, Microsoft has sent out invites to the press for a October 25 Windows 8 launch event in New York. Previously, the company had confirmed that the public release of Windows 8 will happen on October 26. Apart from this, the company also confirmed that the Windows RT powered variant of the Surface tablet will launch simultaneously with the release of Windows 8.
At the moment Microsoft is being quite cryptic about the exact location of the event in New York, but we will know that soon enough. Besides Windows 8, Microsoft is also scheduled to launch the new version of Windows Server and Windows Phone 8.
Nokia has already unveiled its Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 smartphones, alongside this Samsung unveiled the Ativ S Windows Phone 8 smartphone. HTC is also expected to showcase its Windows Phone 8 line up on September 19. All this comes after Windows Phone 8 hit RTM on Friday and we can be reassured, that the launch event for Windows 8 and the Surface RT tablet will also include something related to Windows Phone 8.
The October 25 event will also be soon followed up with Microsoft’s ‘Build’ developer conference which will take place at the Microsoft campus in Redmond.

-Sahil 'Bones' Gupta