And instead of saying "Metro design," the Softies and those adhering to their official guidelines will be using the words "Windows 8 design." By using the operating system as an adjective for its UI, ...

In 2006, Microsoft introduced the Zune, its ill-fated portable music player. But the Zune legacy lived on with a fresh approach on interface design that led to the launch of Metro, the interface ...

Tasos delivers his thoughts on Windows 8 and Metro UI and why it could be the (d)evolution of the world's most popular OS, as well as Microsoft's reasons for the UI design in the new OS.

According to the post, Windows 9 will share the same Metro interface - or "Modern UI" - as Windows 9. It also appears from the post that the general aesthetics of the OS will remain largely ...

Windows: Microsoft's Metro UI, which graces both Windows 8 and Windows Phone, is pretty snazzy, and if you're sick of the Aero look, you can bring the Metro UI to Windows 7 with the Zetro theme ...

Fluent Design pushes Windows 10 further away from the Metro UI introduced with Windows 8. We've seen some concept images of Fluent Design in the past under the internal name Project Neon.

Windows UI designer explains why forcing Metro on all is great for power users By Brad Chacos Feb 18, 2014 1:22 pm PST ...

Love it or loathe it, Microsoft’s minimalist and blocky Metro user interface will provide Windows its signature look for the foreseeable future, according to reports making the rounds.

Application vendors can advertise themselves as "Metro-compatible" without actually doing anything to improve their UI. I continue to believe Windows 8 will be a tremendous flop for Microsoft.

"Metro" was short, catchy, and already established. The new trademark seems like it could refer to anything—provided the reader knows what "UI" means, that is, which isn’t guaranteed.