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Also MS "Metro" UI nowadays named "Modern UI": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change Metro Grou
by frik 12y ago
Also MS "Metro" UI nowadays named "Modern UI": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change
Metro Group, Germany's largest retailer, had something against it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG). Yet, it's an abbreviation of "metropolitan" and is used for many other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro
- wvenable 12y agoMicrosoft should have never backed down on this one.
- UntitledNo4 12y agoMetro AG owns Media Markt and Saturn[1], both sell electronics, including computers. Judging by their stores, most of these computers are PCs (although they do sell Apple computers as well). Media Markt, is Europe's largest retailer of consumer electronics[2]. Saturn is one of the big retailers of consumer electronics in Germany, and have stores in some other European countries[3]. So perhaps Microsoft could have won that one, but at what cost? Pissing off one of their biggest retailers? I don't know for sure, but it seems very likely that Microsoft wouldn't want to do that and made the decision to back off instead. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Markt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Markt [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store)
- wvenable 12y agoThe thing is Microsoft's Metro isn't even a product, it's just a name for a technology. Why should this company even care. The whole is ridiculous and that's why Microsoft should not have backed down on it.