Microsoft’s newest desktop Operating System, Windows 8, is still many months away (9 at least I’d say) but we’re seeing more and more info about what it will contain and how it will look.
Metro is the design style introduced with Windows Phone and is now making it’s way across the Microsoft eco-system…soon to appear in the Xbox dashboard and now in Windows 8. Here you can see:
The Start Menu:
Desktop Notification Balloon:
This obviously fits very well with the tiled start screen we’ve already seen from Windows 8:
I am certainly looking forward to getting my hands on the beta of this ASAP…just need a tablet so I can test it properly…hint hint 
Cloudy with a chance of Licensing 