I noticed that some news sites just copy content from other sites whitout even verifiying info by themselves........they just post a lot of crap to get a lot of views and $ with the ads....thats how it works. ps : I didn't verify if they are wrong because I haven't downloaded win 8 because I already know what features it has.
The "shhh...let's not leak our hard work" phrase is also found at: Microsoft Pre-release Windows Operating System build 6.2.7959.0 (fbl_srv) with AeroLite And the kernel has changed to 6.2 at milestone2. Milestone 1, which has been leaked is still using kernel version 6.1. (of w7) The author of your source has no clue at all.