With the launch of Windows 8 to MSDN and TechNet users in less than three days from August 15 (US time - August 16 in Australia), and then October 26 at retail, the decision to stop using the Metro ...

Firefox 28 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android has been released. For Android, version 28 adds a lot of cool features -- such as predictive lookup from the address (Awesome) bar, the addition of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is reportedly inching closer to appeasing Windows 8’s detractors, with an update that would boot straight to the desktop instead of the modern-style Start screen. Windows 8.1 already has an ...

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 ...

I know this is just a test build so I can't be too harsh (and since I hate Chrome, it doesn't even matter personally to me) but if they do plan on having the browser look like that when using Metro, ...

It's Metro-styled, not a Metro app. It's a separate class of applications, specific to web browsers. You can have "desktop-only" web browser, that is only accessible ...

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 ...

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 ...