Today I saw some new screenshots from Windows 8 that all come from the Metro part of Windows. Now I don’t know if these images are real screenshots or just a very good concept shot being passed off as screenshots, I do know though that there isn’t really anything in any of these images that [...]

With the Windows Developers Preview do you miss actually having physical media to hold on to? Well the below image might go some way to appeasing you as you could print it off and put it into a DVD case. This box artwork concept comes from @Windows_Romania or misaki2009 on Deviantart. What do you think [...]

Here is a great concept for a Steam client a Metro style app on Windows 8, this comes via Paul Thurrott. What do you think of these concepts? I think they are pretty stunning, only reinforcing that Metro can work with nearly any kind of app.

Just in case you hadn’t already seen it but Microsoft is making Windows metro which is very exciting. You can read all about Windows 8 and my thoughts about it on MML but I thought I’d share with you some of the images from yesterday’s keynote. What do you think of Windows 8? We’re likely [...]

A screenshot of the new Windows Server8 has appeared that shows a new Metro interface for the console of the server, such a shame there had to be such a large watermark on the image though. The screenshot comes from the MDL Forums, in case you didn’t know. The interesting thing with this screenshot of [...]

In Microsoft’s 3rd video about building Windows 8 they show how the company plans to overhaul the copy experience within Explorer in the next version of Windows. The video included things such as a single place for all copy jobs on Windows and options to pause/resume and cancel any copy job. Microsoft has also refined [...]

In the latest post on the Building Windows 8 blog Steven Sinofsky talk about the Metro UI on Windows 8. He takes an interesting slant on talking about Metro stressing the point that its not just the fact that the Segoe font is used and that block colours are found through the interface but it [...]

Regular readers of MML probably know I am a major Metro UI fan and its perhaps why I am also a big fan of the Zune software and the upcoming Windows Phone 7. I’m also happy to see the new Xbox 360 interface takes notes from the Metro UI. However there aren’t really many apps [...]

Paul Thurrott has just published a review of the next update to the Zune PC Software. The main changes and new features are understandably focused around Windows Phone 7 with the devices only able to sync to a PC via the Zune software; without this software or later versions it is not possible to sync [...]

Stand by people, within hours there should be a new version of MetroTwit released which will bring many bug fixes but more importantly URL shortening and even theme, accent and colour support. URL Shortening has been one of the most requested features of the Metro inspired, Windows Twitter client and this addition should allow more [...]