it looks like the same timetable as Windows 7, maybe even sooner. I don't understand why MS is pushing back a service pack for Windows 7 until late Q1 2013 (if we are all still alive by then), most businesses have adopted Windows 7 by now so a SP would make sense for 7/2008 R2 this year.
According to lots of posts on lots of boards, Win8 is going to suck so bad that MS will be out of business before they get Win7 SP2 completed...
Right we will see the face of Microsoft, negative feedbacks are massive, that means the massive will be the people not buying Windows 8 or computers with new OS on it 1+1 still makes 2..... so......
I think people will not be buying computers more due the global recession. The vast majority of the sheeple wouldn't know one OS from another.