Microsoft to ban apps with "metro" in the name

Microsoft seems to have gone crazy with the UI of its upcoming operating system (OS), Windows 8. After recently having officially renamed the UI in all of its documentation to “Modern UI”, some more documentation reveal that apps that have the word “Metro” in the name will not pass through certification and will not show up on the Windows Marketplace, according to UnleashThePhone.A line in the section “Don’t use names trademarked by others” reads, “Make sure your app name doesn’t include the word metro. Apps with a name that includes the word metro will fail certification and won’t be listed in the Windows Store.” This could be problematic for many apps like MetroTwit and Metrogram, among many others.We had earlier reported that in the documentation for Windows 8, the word Metro UI or Metro in the name has been replaced with Modern UI or Modern user interface. One example of such a change is “Windows 8 is Windows re-imagined. Join this session to learn about the new platform for building Modern UI-style applications. You’ll get a deeper understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language choices, and integration points with the operating system and across Modern UI-style apps. We’ll also demo the Windows Store and the many different ways to monetize your application, including subscriptions, trial apps, advertisement, and in-app purchases.”

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