Following the announcements made by microsoft earlier today, it has been confirmed that Windows 8 will be released to the manufacturing the first week of August and then be available in late October.
It also mean that Windows server 2012 will be also be released to manufacturing first week of August though the server bits won't be available for the customers until september.
For those waiting for the new Microsoft PC / tablets running on RT should expect them during the release of the new Windows 8 as stated earlier.