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August 4, 2012 12:26 am GMT

Microsoft Ditches Metro Name




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Microsoft Metro is no more; at least as a brand name for the design style found in Windows 8, Windows Phone and other Microsoft products.

That colorful, boxy and built for touch-interfaces style will remain, but, for now, without a specific name.

Heres Microsofts official statement:

"We have used Metro style as a code name during the product development cycle across many of our product lines. As we get closer to launch and transition from industry dialog to a broad consumer dialog we will use our commercial names."

That "code name" part is a bit disingenuous. Microsoft seemed far more wedded to the "Metro" name when I met with them last spring, Metro was more than code,…
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