Microsoft's career website has job advertisement regarding Windows 8 – advertised as having to do with data center automation solutions that customers can develop over the technologies that the Windows Management Core Platform is comprised of: PowerShell, WS-Man, WMI and BITS. Naturally, those technologies will be expanded upon - and perhaps new ones added to - in Windows 8, revealed. From the job posting: “For Windows 8, [the Windows Management Core Platform] team is chartered to build the data center automation platform that would enable internal/external partners to build their data center solutions on top of the platform. This is a position for a Software Design Engineer in the Core Platform team who would be primarily working on the data center automation platform features for Windows 8.”