[ilt]

Metro never had this much transparency ingrained in the UX - and where it had, it was tastefully done with no/minimal accessibility concerns - doesn't seem like a valid comparison. Windows 8, especially 8.1 was a very pretty piece of software, the whole gesture- and card-based interface fiasco ruined its good name.

[kej]

I didn't mean the visual style so much as the "let's use the same design on phones and on giant desktop monitors" philosophy.