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The Building Windows 8 Twitter account is becoming a feast of news about Windows 8 and its development path.

According to a tweet from the account about 45 minutes ago Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky, speaking to a crowd of about 2,000 in Japan for Windows 8 Dev Days, announced the Release Preview will be available in the first week of June.

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Just five weeks to go and this Release Preview will be available just 12 weeks after the Consumer Preview. 

Are you surprised by the announcement?