Microsoft’s explanation of Metro, from back in the days when it was officially called Metro
I like writing about Windows 8. But every time I dosuch as right now, as I’ve been working on a post on Windows 8.1I’m bedeviled by the same conundrum. It’s minor but aggravating, and it confronts anyone who writes about Microsoft’s new operating system:
What do you call the new Windows 8 interface?
Until August of last year, there was an easy answer to that question: You called it Metro, the name Microsoft gave to the streamlined, tile-oriented, largely pleasing look and feel which it has rolled out, in various forms, in Windows 8, Windows Phone, Outlook.com and other products and services. And then Microsoft abandoned the monikerapparently because of a trademark dispute involving the German retailing firm Metro AG, though I don’t believe anyone has ever publicly acknowledged that as the reason.
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