Microsoft celebrating leap year right by launching Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC

Perhaps celebrating a push toward the mobile space with its traditionally desktop-bound OS — or maybe just doing its best to further confuse the similar naming conventions with its forthcoming smartphone operating system — Microsoft today sent out invites for a February 29th Mobile World Congress event that will see the launch of its Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Details are scarce about the two-hour event, but you’d better believe that we’ll be there in Barcelona with bells on.