Apple does not have a monopoly on good design! Also, if anything, Metro is farther away from OS X than Windows 7--the whole design is less like anything physic

Apple does not have a monopoly on good design! Also, if anything, Metro is farther away from OS X than Windows 7--the whole design is less like anything physical (Apple loves this, but Aero glass is also like this). The whole design aesthetic is what they call "authentically digital" and I like it quite a bit more than Apple's skeuomorphic (what random words I've learned on HN...) tendencies. Overall, I'm actually really happy with Metro styling. I'm also happy with the related design of WP 7 and the Zune software before it. Plenty of color, no rounded corners, fewer gradients and generally simpler, more minimalist design is what I like the most about it. In some ways, it's not dissimilar to the design of HN, which I also like.