Unless you have design questions - you should more likely tag your question as windows-store-apps or windows-runtime or winrt-xaml or winjs. Metro (now "Microsoft Design Language") was an internal code name for a typography-based user interface design language created by Microsoft. It is featured prominently in Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8.
Metro was an internal code name for a typography-based user interface design language created by Microsoft. It is featured prominently in Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8.
On August 3rd, 2012, the "Metro" codename was dropped in favor of the term "Windows 8 Style UI" (see this article on Ars Technica). While "Metro" was said to be a code name, several reports suggest the name was dropped to avoid a potential trademark dispute. No new marketing terminology has been announced to represent the "Windows 8 Style UI" interface.
It was later reported that from about September/October 2012 Microsoft started to replace earlier references to "Metro Design Language" with "Microsoft Design Language" and "Metro Style Apps" with "Windows Store Apps".
Note that "Metro" was mostly the name of the design language originally used in products such as Windows Media Center, Zune, Windows Phone and later in Windows 8 and all other Microsoft properties. Many people familiar with the term even at Microsoft continue using it today when talking about the design style, while windows-store-apps seems to be gaining acceptance as the term for what was previously called "Metro Style Apps".
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