As previous rumors, Windows Consumer Preview (consumer preview) will serve as a beta version of another name, released on February 29, 2012, accept the review of the world's consumers.
Recently, Microsoft has finally officially confirmed the news, but not just Windows 8 the Consumer Preview released at the same time there will be a new generation of server operating system, Windows Server 8, the development environment Visual Studio 11, the development framework. NET framework 4.5 and team development management products Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, they will be focusing on Windows 8 around the impact of Microsoft's future a few years of development, I believe this is a feast for the industry is concerned about Microsoft products.