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The Metro design language spans all Microsoft consumer experiences

Your app is visually stunning and center stage. It presents your content in new and

beautiful ways.

Users are completely immersed in your app and your content.

High quality images and illustrations shine in your app and draw users in.

Users will expect commands to be off screen and will swipe in from the top or bottom of

the screen when they need them.

• Use interesting and

relevant advertising

• Use the Trial option to

introduce your app

and then upgrade to

paid version

• Develop in-app

purchases to offer

premium experiences

• Manage your own

commerce platform

for 100% of revenue

• There are a variety of ways to monetize your app in the Windows Store beyond keeping up to 80% of revenue

Windows 8 enables apps to interact

seamlessly with each other.

These four “contracts” appear in

every app:

• Search

• Share

• Devices

• Settings

• Share articles with your friends,

family & colleagues

• Post articles to social networks

• Look up a term from any other

app; return results that

seamlessly combine local and

web-based content

Semantic Zoom allows a user to

get a different view of your data,

making it easier to understand

and navigate.

Examples

• Allow a user to quickly navigate

between different reference

categories

• Show visually how different

sections vary by various meta

data, including popularity, social

interactivity, age etc.

• Allow a user to quickly navigate between

different reference categories

• Show visually how different sections vary by

various meta data, including popularity,

social interactivity, age etc.

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Use location to provide relevant,

timely articles to the user

Examples:

• Show location-specific Human Body

events, lectures, and exhibits

• News aggregated from local sources

• Users can add cities to the favorite

section for easy access

• Social feed can be customized

based on the location

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