Microsoft declares that any Metro app sold, must be sold through the App Store.
Microsoft undoubtedly evaluated creating a Metro-style version of Office for Windows 8 just as it has created a Metro-style version of Internet Explorer.
Microsoft creates App Store, where every Metro app sold their, will garner them 20-30% of sale price.
Kin's user interface is best described as having a "comic book" feel to it with a limited color palette, blocky, chunky text, and oversized, zoomed-in images -- it's stylish, but in a very different way than the spartan "Metro" design DNA that Microsoft is baking into Windows Phone 7.
And for those wanting an even lighter-weight alternative there is the possibility of getting a Windows RT tablet, which runs the Metro apps and that special light version of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft launches massive campaign to get users to jump over to Metro, break-dancing commercials included.
Both Ars Technica and The Verge hear from unverified sources that German retailer Metro AG might waving its legal guns and forcing Microsoft to quiet down over a potential (if questionable) trademark dispute.
ENGADGET: Microsoft downplays Metro design name, might face a lawsuit over all that street lingo
The software is the first from Microsoft designed with tablet computers in mind, offering an interface called Metro that is designed to be controlled by a user touching a display.
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows on X86 will ship with both modes, Metro and Desktop.
The Metro interface, the blue-tiled placard of a new Microsoft, so different, so strangely touchy and so clearly emblematic of mobile functioning, is what is driving product confusion and refusal to engage.
ENGADGET: Editorial: Microsoft is singing the right tune with some wrong notes
Microsoft launches massive campaign to get developers to convert to this new API, Metro.
In spite of that urban look being the underpinning of Windows Phone, Windows 8 and even the Zune HD, Microsoft now claims to ZDNet and others that it's no longer fond of the Metro badge.
ENGADGET: Microsoft downplays Metro design name, might face a lawsuit over all that street lingo
To MAKE SURE THAT USERS MIGRATE, Microsoft pulls the biggest stunt of all: Eliminate the START menu and force booting directly to Metro interface.
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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