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    <p>If you guys were at the starting point of designing a new enterprise/business app, would you consider <strong>Metro style</strong> (<strong>WinRT</strong>) user interface for that?</p> <p>We need:</p> <ul> <li>a sophisticated desktop app (WPF/MVVM) for editing multiple complex forms with hundreds fields, some forms/windows/pages can be quite hefty, so free space on the screen has to be utilised wisely. Access to all controls by mouse and keyboard. Using touchscreens is possible in the future (but I believe &lt;5% of customers will use it).</li> <li>a web app for viewing data (much simpler than the desktop app)</li> <li>mobile apps for iPhone/Android with basic functions for offline tasks in the field.</li> </ul> <p>UI should be consistent among all the apps. And I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem to design mobile apps with Metro (and probably the web app). But the desktop app might be too complex for Metro (due to big forms and lists). </p> <p>Have anybody seen samples of enterprise/business apps with Metro UI?</p> <p><strong>P.S.</strong> I've read many articles from MS (like <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/hh868273/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Designing great productivity apps for Windows</a>) and some sober views of things (like <a href="http://betanews.com/2012/05/04/how-suitable-is-windows-8-metro-for-business-developers/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">How suitable is Windows 8 Metro for business developers?</a>) and still can't find a good approach for big forms and lists with Metro UI.</p> <p>Would like to get something like <a href="http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/software" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Zune</a> (on the picture below), but tend to think that it's impossible. <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kVURa.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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    1. COReview WinRT and be sure it has what you need for the Desktop (e.g. there is no System.Data). It is kind of sand-boxed which can be a good thing of a bad thing. A consistent UI from desktop to mobile is a limiting design premise.
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    2. COI found an example of CRM app in Metro UI on DevExpress video (http://youtu.be/kgzvyBfuMkc?t=5m28s). Not bad, if know that it was built with WinForms
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