As we know that Microsoft would be releasing the Windows 8 Beta which is currently called as Windows 8 consumer preview in February, today Canouna has posted on winunleaked that Windows 8 has reached beta escrow stage with the last build compiled in pre beta stage was build 8189 with build string as 8189.0.winmain.120120-1830 which was compiled on January 20.

Microsoft started working on beta escrow builds from January 22 and the latest build compiled in beta escrow stage is build 8192 with complete string as 8192.0.winmain.120125-1820 which states that the build was compiled recently on January 25. Further it is estimated that if all goes well Microsoft would be signing the Beta build this week.

We would keep you updated as we get more news about Windows 8 consumer preview.