For over a year, we’ve been calling Windows 8’s unique interface ‘Metro’. Why has the tech industry been doing that? Well, because that’s what Microsoft called it! However, it looks like Microsoft has turned it back on the Metro name. They’re saying it was always intended to be a code name for the operating system’s unique interface. Reportedly, the Windows 8 programmers and desig

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The PC community is moderately excited about the Windows 8 app store. Although an app store does exist in the Windows 8 release preview, it’s not stocked with very many apps. Microsoft has insisted that apps will be its focus as it moves forward, and has even started paying developers to build apps based on Windows 8. Now that we have an official release date for Windows 8 (October 26, 2012),

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Windows 8 is set to come out later this fall. But PC users (many of whom just upgraded to Windows 7), might not jump on the Windows 8 bandwagon in droves. Windows 8 is Microsoft’s first tablet-centric operating system. With its unique Metro UI and lack of Windows Media Center, it’s a bit of a change from previous versions of Windows. Microsoft has even announced that Windows 8 will not feat

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