Just a quick post to let you know that I have relaunched my Metro US focused blog, Typography and Squares. I have built a brand new theme for the site based on Windows 8 and it should cater for touch screen devices too. The site will also indicate if an article has come from here [...]

It’s been a busy for hours for the Windows team as they have so far made 2 significant announcements about Windows 8 in their blog Building Windows 8. The first announcement was that Windows Explorer will be donning the Ribbon UI to better show many of the features and options available to users currently on [...]

Microsoft have released their 3rd video today about building Windows 8 and its a very interesting video showing how the company plans to overhaul the copy experience within Explorer in the next version of Windows. This included things such as a single place for all copy jobs on Windows and options to pause/resume and cancel [...]

I have just spotted another, official place that Microsoft is using the new square logo for Windows Phone; for the Facebook app. If this isn’t a clear indication that the logo will become very Metro then I don’t know what is. This follows news from a couple of weeks ago where Microsoft started using the [...]

Well I am back from my month long Eurotrip and it was fantastic. I was able to kind of follow all the tech news and have caught up today on anything I might have missed. One minor thing I did hear and liked what I saw was that Microsoft looks set to be changing the [...]

Following the Mango announcement back on May 24th I wrote about what new features shown there could mean for other Microsoft products. Well today I want to take a look at what some of the new features coming to the Xbox later this year could mean for other Microsoft products. By the way, NXE stands [...]

Tonight I found myself with some free time and decided to trawl through DeviantArt.com. Below are some of the best Metro UI related things I could find, I have saved the best till last… First up is an interesting design for the Steam client. It takes some of the best bits of the Dorardo client [...]

Today MobileTechWorld.com had a look at the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace portal where developers will be able to submit their apps to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. They seem impressed with the portal saying that the new Silverlight version looks “super neat”. As could have been guessed the interface follows the Metro design principles which [...]

I originally wrote this article for Typography and Squares but now think readers of MML will like this just as much. Regular readers of MML probably know I am a major Metro UI fan and its perhaps why I am also a big fan of the Zune software and the upcoming Windows Phone 7. I’m [...]

Over the 16 months that My Microsoft Life has been online I have received many comments about the look of the site, some good and some bad, and I have noted what needs to be changed. What I didn’t want to do was just add new features and tweak the way things worked and looked [...]