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, ...

A funny thing happens whenever I use my Surface Pro 2 for work. Even though the 10-inch screen and tiny Type Cover trackpad are less comfortable to work with than my dual-monitor Windows 7 desktop, ...

Taking a cue out of the playbooks of famous name-changers like Ron Artest, Cat Stevens, and Prince, Microsoft isn’t calling its UI design Metro anymore. Although that’s the official title MS has been ...

Change is terrifying, and few things in technology have a greater capacity to set us on edge than a fundamental reimagining of the Windows operating system–a piece of the PC that’s as vital to our ...

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 ...

A purported UX designer for Microsoft reveals why the "love it or hate it" Metro environment is the default in Windows 8. Microsoft designed its Metro, aka Modern, interface for “your ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft just unveiled a Windows 8 logo that matches what the company calls its "complete reimagination" of the operating system. "The Windows logo is a strong and widely recognized mark but when we ...