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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Making Windows 8 work like Windows 7 by keeping the Taskbar visible whenever the Modern UI features are running.

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So web properties leap to the forefront of modern UI design, making for amazingly productive, fast and fluid applications on the desktop.

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The display is outstanding with the Windows 8 tile-based Modern UI but in desktop mode, icons and text are almost too small because of the dense resolution.

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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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User interface (UI) is one of the most impactful manifestations of human centred design in our modern society.

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