Microsoft bans apps with Metro name
Microsoft recently renamed the User Interface (UI)
in all of its documentation to 'Modern UI' from 'Metro UI', officially.
Documentation now reveals that apps that have the word 'Metro' in the
name will not pass through certification, and will not show up on the
Windows Marketplace, according to UnleashThePhone.
A line in the section reads, “Don’t use names trademarked by others... Make sure your app name doesn’t include the word metro. Apps with a name that includes the word metro will fail certification and won’t be listed in the Windows Store”. This could be problematic for many apps such as MetroTwit and Metrogram.
Microsoft also seems to have simply done a find-and-replace action in
the documentation to replace the name Metro with Modern UI. This has
resulted in weird and confusing statements such as, “Building a Windows 8 Modern user interface-style user interface”.
Microsoft has claimed that ‘Metro’ was just a code name for the user interface used by developers, and that generic use of the code name by the public was never intended. However, as per a report by ZDNet, this switch has been made owing to a naming dispute with its European partner, Metro Group. The fact that Microsoft went with a name as boring as Modern UI supports the idea that it might have been caught off guard by the naming dispute.
A line in the section reads, “Don’t use names trademarked by others... Make sure your app name doesn’t include the word metro. Apps with a name that includes the word metro will fail certification and won’t be listed in the Windows Store”. This could be problematic for many apps such as MetroTwit and Metrogram.
Microsoft has claimed that ‘Metro’ was just a code name for the user interface used by developers, and that generic use of the code name by the public was never intended. However, as per a report by ZDNet, this switch has been made owing to a naming dispute with its European partner, Metro Group. The fact that Microsoft went with a name as boring as Modern UI supports the idea that it might have been caught off guard by the naming dispute.
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