We do our best to be skeptical here at TNW Microsoft. That said, we are comfortable calling these revealed Xbox 360 dashboard features (mostly) legitimate; discussions with other publications have provided us with enough confidence to dub parts of the following videos as real. We have two short clips. The first is a walk through of a number of pictures, detailing a great host of features and upgrades that will be coming to the Xbox 360 as early as September....

We told you to expect more Windows 8 news to trickle out as the BUILD conference approaches, and we were right. Today’s tasty Windows 8 morselcomes from WinRumors, who found, watched, and excised a very interesting 20 second clip that appears to detail how photo sharing will work in Windows 8. While that might sound dull on the face of it, the video shows off a new user interface, and also features complex voice commands....

TNW Quick Hit: Talk about starting the week off with a bang, today a new version of Windows 8 began to leak across private FTP websites. It will undoubtedly show up in torrent format shortly. The build, a Windows 8 Milestone 2 version numbered 7955, of course does not reflect the current status of Windows 8 in regards to its developmental progress, but it should unlock new secrets about the forthcoming OS once it is picked apart....

We promised to bring you every important Windows 8 leak to cross our bow, and what we have found today is a doozy. Fans of the OS X operating system are without a doubt familiar with Time Machine, Apple’s popular and well-built backup feature. Everyone who eventually upgrades to Windows 8 will become familiar with the Time Machine concept through afreshly leakedfeature for the future OS called ‘History Vault,’ Microsoft’s answer to the well-received Apple product....

New Windows Live icons seem to paint the picture that Microsoft is set to include Skype’s video chat capabilities into its suite of consumer web services. The icons,found by LiveSide, include ‘camera’ images similar to what Google employs in Gmail. Three colors of the same image are included, presumably for ‘available,’ ‘busy,’ and ‘away.’ Here are the icons: It is likely that Microsoft, which has been unusually quiet on the Windows Live front, at least from a PR perspective, for some time now, is set to unveil new upgrades for the various Live components at the upcoming BUILD conference....