2012. Windows 8. Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of Windows NT family of operating systems.
Development of Windows 8 started before the release of its predecessor, Windows 7, in 2009. It was announced at CES 2011, and followed by the release of three pre-release versions from September 2011 to May 2012. The operating system was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, and was released for general availability on October 26, 2012.[5] Windows 8 was released to a mixed reception.