Windows Phone 8 will reportedly launch October 29th
It's shaping up to be a hell of an October for Microsoft. We've known for a while that Windows 8 will be available (alongside a large and growing set of hardware) on October 26th, but according to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley Windows Phone 8 is set to be launched only three days later. On the 29th, Microsoft will reportedly have an event on the West coast to launch the new operating system, and then handsets running the new OS (one of which we've already seen) will be available a week or so later. The timing certainly makes sense: the four days following that announcement are Microsoft's Build conference, where developers will have a chance to talk about all things Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. This fall we'll finally get a chance to answer...