After all, except for Windows RT for ARM tablets, all the legacy Windows apps still run on Windows 8 for x86, too. Even in the Windows Store, there are plenty of old-school desktop apps, after all.

The mission: To spend a week solely in Windows 8's modern UI. The results: Enlightening. The verdict: You'll have to read to find out.

Several weeks ago, Nielsen accused Microsoft of throwing users “under the bus” with Windows 8. Yesterday, he reasserted that Windows 8 is a UI mess, one that confuses and confounds users, even ...

Tasos delivers his thoughts on Windows 8 and Metro UI and why it could be the (d)evolution of the world's most popular OS, as well as Microsoft's reasons for the UI design in the new OS.

So far, all we've seen of applications utilizing Windows 8's new user interface is what Microsoft has publicly demonstrated. But now, just 2-and-a-half weeks away from Microsoft's BUILD conference ...

However, Microsoft employees have started using “Modern UI Style” to refer to the new Windows 8 Start Screen and “Modern UI” design in reference to Windows 8 apps.

New Windows 8 desktop UI shown off in leaked screenshots, lacks Aero Glass. Microsoft’s Aero Glass removal in Windows 8 has been leaked in a number of screenshots.

You can have the Windows Key invoke Reviver rather than the modern UI, but that’s about it. Start8 and Start Menu 8 both allow you to take the modern UI out of the mix entirely.

Just over three decades later, that UI element never actually arrived. Instead, the basic one he created is still kicking around in Windows 11, doing the job as well as it ever has.

A recent demo of Windows 8 by a Microsoft designer shows mockups for the OS as it was initially envisioned in 2010. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...