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copied!<p>The big difference between Metro and Classic Windows is that Metro is optimised for touch screen, and consequently the base controls for developing windows 8 are larger and are primarily designed for touch interaction (although they have reasonable mouse support).</p> <p>Cluttered Forms will be problematic in Windows 8 as the Metro style favours uncluttered user interfaces. This will be especially evident on a tablet where the popup soft keyboard will cover part of the screen, and the window will perform scrolling gymnastics in order to put the currently focussed text box (for example) into view.</p> <p>All Metro controls could be re-templated to mimic their legacy counterparts (so you could create a Zune-like screen as you describe), but then you would need to ask yourself what would be the benefit of creating the App in Windows 8 if you're not going to utilise the new touch support ?</p> <p>Howver, there is a big benefit of writing your app in Metro, and that is portability. If you can get the UI design of the App to remain as a Standard Metro app (whilst facilitate your requirements), then your App should run on the Windows Desktop, Windows Tablet, and Windows Phone with minimal extra development effort.</p> <p>With Windows 8 Mertro you also have the advantage of launching apps through the corporations own pivate 'App Store', but this may also be seen as a hinderance, depending on the security policies of your firm (although Apps can be deployed outisde of tha app store using powershell).</p>

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