With Microsoft well at work on the next version of Windows — more specifically with Windows 8 M2 development underway — many are hoping for a build to escape Redmond and leak upon us. The build may very well have escaped Redmond, but not to the general public, but through a chain of under-the-table passing from one trustee to the next.
DeviantArt user Misaki2009 with ties to the Russian leaking community has published the following screenshots of 6.2.7867.0.101020-1800 on his dA page:

more at source..

I hope there are no leaks for at least another two weeks as I'm/the site just not ready yet!!!

I dunno, bring on the leaks! We'll try to be nice to the site. However, it looks great as it is so I'm sure it must be a lot of behind the scenes stuff to be done that isn't readily apparent to us average users.

I guess in the interest of due process I should note that Tom Warren of WinRumors and Neowin is calling a fake on this one. Link to tweet

Either way, the surfacing of this image isn't going to have an effect on a leak, as the guy said he won't leak the build.

I guess it's not that hard to get the pre-RC build of IE9 working, anyone can do it

bring on the leaks please

Originally Posted by kenshen

bring on the leaks please

Speaking of leaks... Latest Screens

(with a video)

An update to the whole saga that's been going on surrounding this.

It turns out the person who posted this was given a .vhd image from another person. Person number two apparantly made the .vhd himself and passed it off as a an early version of Windows 8.

In the end, it is fake :sad: