Windows 8 Consumer Preview available now  Microsoft's president
of Windows Steve Sinofsky took to the stage over in Barcelona at
MWC (well, a bus ride from MWC to be more accurate) to
officially launch the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.  Describing
the forthcoming OS as "a bold re-imagining of Windows", Sinofsky
said that "the goal with Windows 8 is to deliver PCs without
compromise". He said he wanted "a unified operating experience".
"There's too many hard stops between phones, tablets and PCs -
we want it to be much more harmonious and seamless," he
explained.  The Consumer Preview is said by Microsoft to boast 
"significant product changes since Windows Developer Preview".
It has more than 100,000 code changes from that version as well.
"It's beautiful, it's modern, it's fast, it's fluid," said the
Windows boss, describing Windows 8 as a "generational change".
Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green gave the assembled tech hacks an
overview of the work-in-progess OS and showed off the Xbox Live
app, which offers t