[adorno]

"Metro" is someone or something that claims to be male, but for whom the evidence suggests otherwise.

Yet, Microsoft isn't using "metro" to refer to anything within Windows 8. You are still using last year's terminology, just like you want to continue doing things the old way.

[Still Thinking]

adorno, you seemed to find my previous explanation of "metro" confusing, and homeatlast asked if it was similar to Vista, so maybe a pictorial comparison will better explain: