"Andy Burns" wrote

| The main point of the Metro UI and Metro/RT/universal apps was to
| provide consistency across desktops and phones, and to sell a kind of
| "Microsoft lifestyle" gimmick.
|
| They'll claim it has to stay, because X-box.
|
Ah. I forgot all about X-Box. Is that still a thing?
Funny that they've failed numerous times with
phones but managed to compete with Sony and
Nintendo on games. I remember at the beginning
that Sony was swaggering about how MS would
never be a threat because they lacked expertise.