With the launch of Windows 8 to MSDN and TechNet users in less than three days from August 15 (US time - August 16 in Australia), and then October 26 at retail, the decision to stop using the Metro ...

Microsoft is making the Visual Studio 2012 tooling available to all developers on August 15. MSDN subscribers can also access Windows 8 for testing purposes, starting today. Microsoft released Visual ...

Microsoft has long used the term “Metro” for its newest Windows interfaces, first for Windows Phone 7, and after that for Windows 8. Now it’s dropping that name, and the explanation for it makes ...

It’s official: Microsoft has KILLED its Metro nomenclature for Windows 8, but obviously, the company has not killed off the Metro interface. Windows 8 Metro is DEAD – long live Windows 8 Metro. That ...

It's official -- well, sort of. Microsoft has formally changed the "Metro" name used to describe a user interface and an app style for Windows 8 to a new name, "Windows Store app." The name change ...

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 ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Microsoft's explanation of Metro, from back in the days when it was ...

I broke my half of our Windows 8 review into two smaller parts when I realized that sheer frustration with the Windows 8 Desktop/Metro integration section was threatening to destroy my positive ...