The Inquirer reports that AMD is planning to refresh its Brazos platform in time for Microsoft's Windows 8.
WinRumors posted a news story that Microsoft may be preparing to release an early pre-beta copy of Windows 8 as soon as next week
The Windows 8 Beta Blog reports that fake Windows 8 build 8030 torrents floating around on the net.
Neowin posted a news story that Microsoft will be finishing the Windows 8 Beta sometime towards the end of July.
HP looks likely to offer its own Windows 8 based tablet, despite using WebOS on its new TouchPad hardware.
ZDNet published a gallery with screenshots from the D9 conference leaked Windows 8 build.
Clues abound that Hyper-V is a foundation technology for Windows 8, enabling Microsoft to dominate a new era of desktop virtualization.
The leaked Windows 8 build 7989 also contains Hyper-V 3.0 and a new virtual hard drive format, VHDX.
Analysts are split on how big of a gamble Microsoft has made by making significant changes to the interface of its flagship Windows operating system software.
Considering its adoption of the Windows Phone metro style, its not surprising to hear that Windows 8's latest leaked build sports a metro-inspired virtual keyboard and traces of code that could bring SMS 3G enabled Windows 8 devices.
Windows 8 includes an updated version of Powershell which supports AppX distribution.
Microsoft is currently building a new touch friendly keyboard into Windows 8. The latest leaked build, 7989, contains an improved version of the keyboard which Microsoft has demonstrated recently.
A Milestone 3 version of Windows 8 leaked publicly on Saturday. The build is currently being distributed on FTPs and file sharing sites after an anonymous leakster posted the bits to the win7vista site.
Neowin reports that screenshot from Windows 8 build 7989 has been leaked on the Internet
Microsoft started work on what is going to be released as Windows 8 for ARM before Apple's iPad had even been launched, according to corporate VP Dan'l Lewin.
According to Notebook Italia, Asus is eyeing Windows 8 for the next version of its Eee Pad Transformer, a tablet with an optional keyboard and trackpad dock that props the device up like a netbook
In an attempt to make the operating system more finger friendly Microsoft seems to be getting ready to move away from plaform technologies such as Win32, COM, MFC, ATL, .NET, Silverlight, and WPF and instead start embracing web-based technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript to create immersive applications.
Microsoft is planning to add Xbox Live to the forthcoming Windows 8 PC operating system.
Windows 8 will get better crash-detection features, a 3G/Wi-Fi/WWAN Cost Limiter, and a taskbar with multimonitor support.
Microsoft may be building in better multi-monitor support for Windows 8, according to reports
