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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Metro comes up
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:12:32 Ben Gilbert The Microsoft brand is first, and, you know, we're defining a really breakthrough new user interface called Metro that actually came from the Zune, which is funny that that's its lineage.
- ▶ 3:27:51 Ben Gilbert So the Windows eight touch mode Metro UI development environment was HTML five because all these web developers are already writing their web apps.
- ▶ 3:30:09 Ben Gilbert All this effort has gone into, and momentum and political capital and betting your career has gone into this HTML five developer community, the Metro UI, and so that is the desktop version that ships.