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, ...

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A purported UX designer for Microsoft reveals why the "love it or hate it" Metro environment is the default in Windows 8. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

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 ...

Windows 8 supports better in-built integration with social media than does Windows 7. Most of this integration is enabled within Metro style apps, but it still allows applications across the system to ...

Update: The guide below was written for Windows 8 Developer Preview and will not work with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview released on February 29th, 2012. But you can still enable Metro style apps on ...

While this looks like a step back in the right direction for desktop systems, I'm less than thrilled about the idea of x86 tablets losing the desktop mode. One of the big draws of an x86 tablet, for ...

Google has released its first attempt at making its popular Chrome browser work with Windows 8’s Metro-style design aesthetic, and because the app ignores some of Microsoft’s Metro mandates, it’s ...