AMD claims Windows 10 will launch by late July, and that feels very soon
In the conference call AMD hosted last week to discuss its first quarter results, CEO Lisa Su let slip with a piece of information that wasn't immediately caught: she said that Windows 10 would be released in late July.
Microsoft has previously said only that the operating system would be released in summer, giving it until September 23, the autumnal equinox, to launch the operating system. AMD's statement, which naturally Microsoft has not corroborated, is rather more specific.
Su said on the call that AMD expected the second half of the year to have a stronger PC market than the first half, due to the launch of Windows 10. In answering a question to clarify this, she said that AMD was "factoring in [...] the Windows 10 launch at the end of July." AMD expects the new operating system to boost PC sales; perhaps a well founded belief in the past, but one that has looked a little shaky in the slowly declining PC market.
