An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux

Despite being perhaps the only person on Earth craving a way to use the Windows 8 UI on Linux, even developer er-bharat ...
Time

How to Stay in Desktop Mode on Your Windows 8 PC

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...
Time

Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A Power User’s Perspective

Forget all of Microsoft’s hoopla about Windows 8‘s new Metro interface. If you’re a power user who relies on lots of legacy software, you’ll still be spending most of your time with the classic ...
Ars Technica

Windows 8 on the desktop—an awkward hybrid

What is so strange to me is the power users that swear they don't mind the Metro desktop at all. I have been using Win / OSX / many LInux Distro's for years and I moved on to Linux Mint from ubuntu ...