One for the sickos: Linux shell 'revives' Windows 8's infamous tile-based Metro look

Win8DE is an attempt to 'revive' Microsoft's tile-based interface, but for Linux. Developer [er-bharat] describes the project ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Microsoft touts 'design for discovery' as firm lifts lid on Windows Store UI for Windows 8

Anyone who has any experience with Microsoft's Metro UI whether through Windows Phone, or the highly Metro-esque updated dashboard for Xbox 360 will already have formed an accurate impression as to ...
InfoWorld

Windows 8 is the new Vista — and that’s a good thing

As the public beta release of Windows 8 nears, the complaints are steadily mounting about its user interface. Just yesterday, ZDnet columnist Stephen Vaughn-Nichols, an admitted Linux fan, has called ...
The Next Web

From Marx to Microsoft: the origins of flat design

Help me. I’m on a laptop running Windows 8 right now. Like many others, I hate it and think it’s the worst operating system since the not-so-distant Vista. If I didn’t have to use it, I might be able ...
Computerworld

10 hidden features in Windows 8

Windows 8 is coming in 2012: Here's an early look at 10 major new features and areas of improvement. Editor’s Note: As expected, Microsoft’s Windows President, Steven Sinofsky, took the stage at the ...