First up is more Windows 8 “Metro” news, which was Microsoft’s code name for its (retro 1980s Volvo-ish?) boxy UI. The Metro code name is now no longer, with Metro apparently having already been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 8: worse than Vista. Most people I talk to say so, the numbers back them up, and now it could be that even Microsoft sees the truth. So why did Windows 8 and the Interface Formerly Known As ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...