In its latest blog post, Microsoft stands by its new Metro Start screen but is now promising a few changes to resolve specific concerns. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Bad news for people who hate Metro (or whatever Microsoft’s calling it now): there’s apparently no way for users to get around the tiled Start menu interface in Windows 8. According to ZDNet, there is ...

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 ...

Google has released its first attempt at making its popular Chrome browser work with Windows 8’s Metro-style design aesthetic, and because the app ignores some of Microsoft’s Metro mandates, it’s ...

Update: The guide below was written for Windows 8 Developer Preview and will not work with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview released on February 29th, 2012. But you can still enable Metro style apps on ...

Cloud storage provider Box wants to be one of the first third-party services with a Windows 8 Metro-style app, allowing users to save and load files online instead of on their hard drives. I got a ...

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 ...