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Taking a cue out of the playbooks of famous name-changers like Ron Artest, Cat Stevens, and Prince, Microsoft isn’t calling its UI design Metro anymore. Although that’s the official title MS has been using for years, it’s reportedly making the shift due to legal reasons—ever heard of a German company called Metro? Neither have we. But apparently they have lawyers!
In any case, considering Metta World Peace, Yusuf Islam, and [unpronounceable symbol] are already taken, Microsoft will have to carefully craft a new nom de plume. So what should we call it? Giz readers plied us with ideas, and we went deep into the discussion to pull out the best suggestions—and added a few of our own.
Windows
Window Panes
Window Pains
Live
Light
Mosaic
Mondrian
Not-Vista
Charms
Tiles
LiveTiles
TacTiles
The New Start Menu
Windows Box Tiles Ultimate Edition Professional
The Operating System Formerly Known as Metro
MetroPol
Sexual
Wait For It
Windows Phone 8 Desktop Edition
Gary
Bob
Brickstart
The Brady Interface
Ballmer’s Block Party Bonanza
Summit
Velveeta
Float
ShitBox
Subway
WeSettledOutofCourtforLotsofMoney a.k.a Metro
These ones are free, Microsoft! You’ll have to pay for the next list.
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Windows Double Glazing
Windows Lego (Subject to licensing and including a mini figure of Steve Ballmer in the box)
Maybe Windows2 (with a little 2) the name would be Windows Squared
Windows2
Ok, so that’s another set of HTML tags that don’t work!
“The Operating System Formerly Known as Metro” is the best one
Damn well either my suggestion of “Windows Multicoloured Quadrilaterals” is already copyrighted or it wasn’t quite good enough to make the cut…
Must be copyrighted
Windows Crapo?
Mine was the most accurate but didn’t make the list =/
call it SH*T. it’s perfect…. no seriously SH*T