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, ...

You’re never far from a legal dispute these days, and Microsoft has made sure it is a bit further away. According to a report, Microsoft is currently being subjected to a trademark dispute for naming ...

Microsoft will ship a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 for building Windows desktop applications, reversing an earlier decision to limit the Express version of the toolkit to building ...

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 notified developers this week to stop using the "Metro" as the name for the new Windows 8 and Windows Phone interface. Apparently, a German company called Metro AG disputed Microsoft's use ...

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 ...

A former Mozilla engineer who worked on the “Metro” version of Firefox argued yesterday that poor adoption of Windows 8’s radical user interface (UI) was not the real cause of the decision to shelve ...

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 ...

Anyone who has any experience with Microsoft's Metro UI whether through Windows Phone, or the highly Metro-esque updated dashboard for Xbox 360 will already have formed an accurate impression as to ...

Microsoft's failed Windows Phone brought us one of the most beautiful and innovative user interfaces ever. Metro, with its tile-based vertically-scrolling UI, felt alive and novel. And it was. But it ...