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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If a Metro patch in Windows 8 or RT goes bad, like last week's KB 2823324 Windows 7 patch, there's no way to uninstall it The debacle of two botched Windows 7 patches in the past six weeks raises all ...

There's a curious option to run apps as full-screen Desktop apps -- as in, like Metro apps, but without Metro's drag-down-to-close. Download ModernMix ($5, free 30-day trial) Now, with Metro apps ...

We've been fans of Splashtop's remote access apps for quite awhile, so when we heard the company was working on a new remote desktop app for Windows 8, we jumped at the chance to take it for a test ...

Bad news for people who hate Metro (or whatever Microsoft’s calling it now): there’s apparently no way for users to get around the tiled Start menu interface in Windows 8. According to ZDNet, there is ...

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Update: The guide below was written for Windows 8 Developer Preview and will not work with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview released on February 29th, 2012. But you can still enable Metro style apps on ...