It's really just an issue of themeing (There's already an unofficial Metro theme for Windows 7: http://www.nirmaltv.com/2011/06/10/windows-metro-ui-theme-for-wi

It's really just an issue of themeing (There's already an unofficial Metro theme for Windows 7: http://www.nirmaltv.com/2011/06/10/windows-metro-ui-theme-for-windows-7/ http://www.nirmaltv.com/2011/06/10/windows-metro-ui-theme-fo...). You can create Metro like applications using XAML today and they look fine in a regular Windows enviornment (In many ways MS Money was doing it in 2001: http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2008/06/ms-money.png http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2008/06/ms-mone...)