Microsoft renames Windows 8 UI to Modern UI

Microsoft has been floundering around with the upcoming Windows 8 and the name of its touch-centric UI. Just recently, Microsoft had renamed the UI from Metro to Windows 8 UI. Now, according to recently released documentation, Microsoft has renamed the UI again, this time to Modern UI.In the documentation, 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.”Microsoft also seem to have simply done a find-and-replace on the documentation to replace Metro with Modern UI. This doesn’t work very well and gives weird and confusing statements like , “Building a Windows 8 Modern user interface-style user interface”.

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