Neowin reports that Paul Thurrott claims on Twitter that the company will ship the final version of Windows 8.1 on August 1st, with Windows Phone 8.1 coming late in 2013 or early 2014
In a post on his Twitter account on Friday, Thurrott states:Rumor: Windows 8.1 to ship August 1st?
In case that was not clear to some of our European readers, "8/1" refers to August 1st in the US. not January 8th. When a Twitter follower claimed that he had heard a Windows 8.1 ship date of October 14th "from a major tech company", Thurrott replied, "I was told this from someone a little closer to the matter." Thurrott tends to be fairly accurate in his rumor stories so we should soon see if the August 1st day is in fact correct.
