METRO partnered with Evolve Houston to expand its reach. Residents in the northern reaches of the city can now use the ...

Good news from Metro for both night owls and early birds, starting this Sunday there will be expanded overnight and early ...

In the aftermath of a Houston Public Media investigation about dangerously high temperatures at Houston bus stops, the region ...

Microsoft's ill-fated Windows 8 operating system was well ahead of its time, and Windows 11 could learn a thing or two about ...

For example, if you have a computer running Windows 8, with a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels, the Start Screen will have Metro apps displayed in four rows. If you are working on a computer ...

and that's about it. Why I hear you ask? Well, Firefox 28 was meant to include the long-awaited Windows 8 Metro version of the browser -- but at the last minute, citing almost zero demand for ...

The tiled, touch-centric Metro interface is an integral part of Windows 8. So integral that Windows defaults to Metro on start up. Should this change? Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer ...

Thank god. Getting rid of Metro apps when you are done with them has been a constant Windows 8.x headache. The divide between the “new” in Windows 8.x (the Metro side of the fence) and the ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft did the unthinkable: The company designed a groundbreaking interface of boxes called Metro that could scale from laptops, to tablets, to phones, to Xboxes–meaning any ...

Metro apps running on the desktop courtesy of ModernMix’s might. If you don’t like the idea of replacing all of Windows 8.1 native apps with desktop alternatives—only modern-style apps ...

Mozilla is finally preparing to launch a version of the Firefox web browser designed to run in the Windows 8 full-screen “Modern” or “Metro” user interface. While Mozilla’s been working ...

One of the more annoying behaviors in Windows 8 and 8.1 is that all of your files are set to open in native Metro-style apps. For instance, if you're working on the desktop and view a picture or ...