Wishing you could retain more of a Windows 7 oriented look with your install of Microsoft's Windows 8 developer release? You'd certainly be one of many who just can't get used to the vastly different ...

As everybody knows, the most striking thing about Windows 8 is its Metro interface–those brightly colored tiles that serve as both shortcuts to programs and live widgets reporting data from those ...

Microsoft will offer Windows 8 users the option of working in the new Metro interface or sticking with a more traditional desktop environment. In the latest installment of the "Building Windows 8" ...

The new Metro user interface ushered in with Windows 8 takes its lead from Windows Phoneand is designed to make life much easier on a tablet or desktop touchscreen. Using the old faithful keyboard and ...

A theme for Android turns the home screen and status bar into an approximation of the Windows 8 Metro UI. It is currently available for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 but may soon be coming to other ...

Windows 8's new Metro UI is designed for tablets, but you'll get it on every Windows 8 PC. Five days into using Windows 8 nonstop, I've made up my mind: despite Microsoft's efforts, Metro really isn't ...

Reports surfaced this week clearly showing a huge drop in overall PC sales during the first quarter of 2013. As we have reported in a recent news article, expert analyst firms have placed this drop ...

At its Worldwide Partner Conference last week, Microsoft strongly implied that the Metro user interface that adorns its Windows Phones will become the standard design across the PC, phone and Xbox 360 ...

Microsoft's phone and tablet market shares remain stuck in single digits, which suggests Windows 8's difficulties go beyond the mishmash of Metro and Desktop UIs Two weeks ago InfoWorld debuted ...

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, ...