Bring a little bit of Windows 8 into Linux with shell styled after infamous tile-based interface

Block by boring block.
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Microsoft touts 'design for discovery' as firm lifts lid on Windows Store UI for Windows 8

Anyone who has any experience with Microsoft's Metro UI whether through Windows Phone, or the highly Metro-esque updated dashboard for Xbox 360 will already have formed an accurate impression as to ...
InfoWorld

Windows 8 is the new Vista — and that’s a good thing

As the public beta release of Windows 8 nears, the complaints are steadily mounting about its user interface. Just yesterday, ZDnet columnist Stephen Vaughn-Nichols, an admitted Linux fan, has called ...
The Next Web

From Marx to Microsoft: the origins of flat design

Help me. I’m on a laptop running Windows 8 right now. Like many others, I hate it and think it’s the worst operating system since the not-so-distant Vista. If I didn’t have to use it, I might be able ...
Computerworld

7 days with a Windows 8 tablet: Not quite the best of both worlds

I bought the first iPad and it has been my casual-use device ever since. I take it on my backpacking adventures, on business trips, heck, I even take it to bed (much to the dismay of my better half) ...