I was sent an email yesterday by a reader of MML letting me know that Microsoft has tweaked the Metro design of its homepage and I have to say that it is a nice improvement over the cluttered design that went before it. However, its still not perfect, there is still too much happening on [...]

Today Metro Dynamis has announced that people can now download “Metro Dynamic Core Web” that will allow people to easily build Metro UI websites and web apps. This is a free downloadable framework for websites and is intended for use on desktops and tablets. The website describes the the download as: Is the core framework, [...]

Microsoft has today announced a new web site aimed at keeping people safe online and the great thing for Metro fans is that this new site is completely Metro in design. This new site is called Your Browser Matters. Not only are there lots of rectangles, blocks of colour and Segoe font used but also [...]

When browsing Microsoft.com (US version) today I noticed that the site’s design has been tweaked since the last time I looked at it. I don’t know how long the site has looked like this. Gone is the background image and in are flat, block backgrounds which bring it much more inline with the Metro UI [...]

Today the BBC have announced a new beta version of their homepage which I think looks excellent, that might of course be because it bears a striking resemblance to the Metro UI. Check out the new homepage (I’m not sure if its accessible outside of the UK). In fact I’d go as far to say [...]

Neowin have written an article pointing out how Microsoft’s Help and Support website has been redesigned with a very heavy Metro influence. I personally am not seeing the redesign however, its good to see that Microsoft are using Metro on more of their online destinations and sites. I wonder how long it will be before [...]

Today Bing has received a minor update that tweaks a few things, most notable it brings Metro UI buttons to the bottom left of the homepage image. It’s likely that there will soon be more changes to Bing in the way of HTML5 which should also bring more Metro designs to Bing. Have you noticed [...]

I was looking around deviantart earlier today when I stumbled upon a video I hadn’t seen of Bing. As far as I can tell this video is real and it actually fits in well with some of the images I’ve seen for the next version of Bing. is in a perpetual state of “coming soon”. [...]

Welcome to the new Typography and Squares! I know I have neglected this blog over the past year but as it seems that Microsoft is going to increasingly use the Metro UI across their products I felt it an apt time to resurrect this blog. However, I didn’t just want this to be another blog, [...]

Over the past few years Microsoft has set up several “labs” with the purpose of bring technologies together within Microsoft in a new and interesting way that was unlikely to have happened in another team. One of those labs is the Fuse Lab which is aimed at developing and delivering “new social, real-time and media-rich [...]