The leaked Windows 8 build 7989 also contains Hyper-V 3.0 and a new virtual hard drive format, VHDX.

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 has released the following updates: Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2539581), Update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2548388), Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB2540589), Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2548388), Update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 (KB2548388), Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB2548388), Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2540589), and Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB2540589)

From the looks of it, a job posting on Microsoft's career site has informally confirmed that Windows Phone is on track to receive "major yearly releases."

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

Windows Phone Team posted a story to show off the new Skydrive in Mango

WPCentral posted their first impressions of the new Verizon HTC Trophy Windows Phone

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 has released 7 updates for Visio 2010: Visio 2010 Add-in for Disk Space Monitoring, Visio 2010 Add-in for Exchange Server 2007, Visio 2010 Add-in for Flowchart Converter, Visio 2010 Add-in for Rack Server Virtualization, Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center, Visio 2010 Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2, and Visio 2010 WBS Modeler

Microsoft has released a download that contains articles to help sales, marketing, customer service, customizer, and system administrator users learn to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Microsoft posted a document that gives IT professionals, PC enthusiasts and software application developers and testers the guidance they need to diagnose issues with interactions between Windows power management and software applications.

WPCentral compared the feature set of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Mango and iOS 5

Microsoft is offering a tool and new documentation to help developers move existing Android apps to the WP7 mobile platform.

Microsoft is on the verge of making available for download a new experimental Visual Studio Power Tool, known as the Debugger Canvas, via its Dev Labs site.

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.