Until August, there was an easy answer to that question: You called it Metro, the name Microsoft gave to the streamlined, tile-oriented, largely pleasing look and feel that it has rolled out, in various forms, in Windows 8, Windows Phone, Outlook.com and other products and services. And then Microsoft abandoned the moniker — apparently because of a trademark dispute involving the German retailing firm Metro AG, though I don’t believe anyone has ever publicly acknowledged that as the reason.
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