Windows 8 Metro tablet interface introduced

Posted on Tuesday, September 13 2011 @ 21:58 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Neowin writes Microsoft revealed more about its "Metro" tablet interface for Windows 8. Metro is a tile-based operating system that will run on top of Windows 8's full desktop experience, enabling users to switch back and forth between the two.

Metro applications are powered by HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, C, C#, C++, VB, XAML for x86, x64 and ARM.

Windows 8 developers will be easy to find with a wide variety of programming languages available for their platform. Microsoft is also offering an easy transition tool for Silverlight developers to port their applications over.

As users will experience with the Metro UI, each tile can contain another set of tiles, perhaps pictures, RSS feeds, video demos and much more.

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