New Windows 8 version of Consumer Preview

In the registry of Windows 8 Consumer Preview is a reference to a “Professional Plus Edition”. A version of Microsoft Office 2010 is also called as. Also the names of other editions of Windows 8 are in the registry.

The Windows8beta-fanblog has discovered that Windows 8 may be in more performances will be released to Windows 7, in the register of the Consumer Preview to browse through. In total, there are eight different versions, compared to the six versions of Windows 7. The two newcomers are the already well-known arm-edition and Professional Plus edition. This last name is used Microsoft for a Office 2010 package that has more business features than the regular Professional version.

It is not yet known what features the new version might contain, but Microsoft is going to further explain the annual Cebit conference, where the company has the Enterprise edition proposes, reports The Verge.

Earlier there were rumors regarding the so-called skus, the different versions of a product. As reported ZDNet on HP’s support pages stated that there are only three versions: standard, Professional and Enterprise edition in both 32bit as 64bit versions.