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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s unclear though whether Metro UI will also be removed from Windows 9, as Murtazin says there are a lot of internal debates on ...

Windows 8’s modern interface didn’t go over so well out of the gate. While there was a lot to like among all the Live Tiles and touch friendliness, usability experts panned many of the operating ...

I've got a bad case of the Windows 8 Metro interface Blues. It looks like Microsoft will be releasing Windows Blue midyear, but the interface is going to be the same old Metro mess that's been giving ...

There’s a lot of buzz around Microsoft’s decision to change the name of its tile-based design in Windows 8. Ricky publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. He's a writer, ...

Is this the last time I can use this image? Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) plans boot-to-desktop as default, mutter deep-throats. It’s said that Windows 8.1 Update 1 will skip the Metro (aka Modern) Start ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Mozilla Scraps Firefox for Windows 8 'Metro' UI Four Days Before Release Low interest (and use) of Firefox in Windows 8's Metro/Modern UI leads Mozilla to pull the plug on the full release of its ...

The New York Times' Nick Bilton poses an interesting question on the Bits blog on February 25: Should and could PC operating systems look more like mobile operating systems? In Microsoft's case, that ...

Enchanted by Microsoft's new Metro UI for Windows Phone 7, but can't wait until the first handsets running the OS begin to show up later in the year? Over at XDA-Developers Jaxbot is working on a ...

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Something has been bothering me about Windows for quite some time. Chances are, it's been bothering you, too. In Window 8.1 and Windows 10, we have both the old Control Panel and the new Settings user ...