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This Linux project proves you can bring back Windows 8 - but not why you should

A Linux developer has created a Windows 8 DE. Win8DE looks very much like Windows 8. This new desktop is still in alpha stages. Remember Windows 8? I'm sure I can guess what you remember from that ...
Neowin

Microsoft is finally removing another Windows 8 UI relic from Windows 11Microsoft is finally removing another Windows 8 UI relic from Windows 11

In 2012, when Microsoft released Windows 8, the operating system received a major UI overhaul, and its bits and pieces remain in Windows 11 to this day. While Microsoft is slowly modernizing Windows ...
MLive

Microsoft shows off early Windows 8 user interface mockups

Microsoft's Windows 8 Start screen UI wasn't shown off fully until mid-2011, but the company is now starting to show off mockups of how the software maker envisioned it back in 2010. Jensen Harris, ...
Time

Sorry, Microsoft, the Experts Have Spoken: Windows 8’s Interface Is Called Metro

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 ...