Whatever the reason, “Metro” is out, and Microsoft is temporarily referring to the colorful, tiled interface of the impending flagship operating system as “Windows 8 Style UI”. That lacks flare, ...

I like writing about Windows 8. But every time I do — like right now, as I’ve been working on a post on Windows 8.1 — I’m bedeviled by the same conundrum. It’s minor but aggravating, and it confronts ...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 beta has been publicly available for nine days, and it’s clear hardly anyone likes it. IDC predicts Windows 8 will be “largely irrelevant for users of traditional PCs.” Tablet ...

For years, Microsoft has been nurturing a new user interface design that they have repeatedly and publicly called "Metro." Thursday, amid rumors of a trademark suit from a German company, they ...

In what has to be its biggest embarrassment in a long time, Microsoft has been forced to drop all references to Metro, the square-tiled interface on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7.x, all due to a ...

Leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 8 build show that Microsoft has jettisoned the traditional Windows 8 Start button but tweaked the Charms Bar and other settings. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Microsoft will walk away from the “Metro” tag it’s been using for over a year to describe the new environment and apps in both Windows 8 and Windows RT, the company confirmed Friday. “We have used ...

Well, thanks to Stardock's ModernMix, you now can! With ModernMix installed, you can run Metro (Modern, Windows 8-style UI) apps on the Windows 8 Desktop. With ModernMix, Metro apps essentially behave ...