Windows 8 Beta Expected Soon - As Early As September 30th

According to rumours started by a popular Windows 8 news site, Win8China, Microsoft is set to provide a public BETA build of Windows 8 to the public soon, maybe even September 30th 2011. I personally don't believe these rumors, but if MS does manage to deliver a new build soon, you may as well call it beta 2, since the current "developers preview" has been downloaded more than 1 million times in just 5 days. Microsoft claimed the Developer Preview was the first build they would be providing updates to.

This has been my guess for quite some time and here as well. It looks like they are pretty much progressing along the same time frame as happened with Windows 7, so barring any unforeseeable issues it's still looking like an October 2012 RTM. Maybe even sooner.