Metro is my favourite design language

I've decided I'm going to blog more often about things I like and not just what I create (though there is a new Sprites chapter coming later today).

I just watched the Mobile World Congress Microsoft Keynote, and the thing I noticed more than any of their announcements (there weren't many) or feautre overviews (lots of rehash from last month's Windows 10 announcement) was that Microsoft's actual Powerpoint presentations look awesome now. They really, really didn't use to. Metro may have fixed Powerpoint.

Now that Metro (I'm sticking with the name) is the layout for not just their operating systems but PR approach, just about everything they do looks good.

The thing about it is I've been using devices that reference Metro's language since 2010, and it doesn't look old yet. Both Google and Apple have updated their UX to a flatter, cleaner look, and even those moves haven't made Metro look dated (if anything, it shows how oddly ahead Microsoft was with it).