Windows 8 Beta Discussion

[Samtastic]

As CES 2012 is coming sooner, Microsoft will be rehearsing and preparing it's keynote speech for the conference. A lot of online news sites state that the Windows 8 Beta should be here by CES 2012. Steve Ballmer is to be on stage at the keynote and there will probably be demos o the beta and later on will possibly be a release of the beta.
Most recently Microsoft have confirmed that the Windows 8 beta wll be launched sometime in Feburary!

Update: Wzor says that the Windows 8 beta has been signed off at build 8175.

What are you hopping for in this beta release of Windows 8?

I'm definitely going to give it a try on my custom built machine which has a Core i5 CPU, 4GB of RAM, 2TB HD and the Nvidia Gefroce 550Ti graphics card. As soon as the beta has launched or leaked, I'm going to install it on my CB and use Windows 8 right up to the RTM release.