Makes sense to us, seeing as how Windows 8 already makes good use of WP7's Metro UI.

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Even with the formerly-known-as-Metro UI (Modern UI), the Windows 7 desktop is still lurking beneath the Surface (pun intended).

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Next, the Surface runs Windows 8 RT, which has the Metro UI, and occasionally exposes something that looks like the old Windows 7.

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It comes with the Metro UI, similar to Windows Phone 7.

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Like virtually every other product announced at IFA, these notebooks will run Windows 8, and though the 1, 366 x 768 displays aren't touch-enabled, Lenovo says its touchpad is optimized for the Metro UI.

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The two worlds of Windows 8 -- one: a traditional desktop UI and the other: the touch-optimized Metro UI -- can, at first, seem so different that they contrast like the multiple personalities of Batman's enemy Two-Face.

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The modern UI of large typefacing, tiles and horizontal views has been pioneered and tweaked in many consumer products, From the first Windows Media Centers, through the Zune music players, and refined in the Windows Phone 7 range, Metro UI was the clean style of interface that has now been iterated into the latest products.

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All in all, with its metro-style design, its completely overhauled UI, and its radical integration of touch functionality, Microsoft is finally doing something truly bold and interesting.

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Then I put Metro (i.e. the new UI which officially has no distinct name) on the right-side display, where it deals with all incoming information -- email, calendars, Twitter and other glance-worthy stuff that shouldn't require any mouse activity.

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