I agree that the *immediate* experience of metro+win8 is confusing coming from the traditional desktop metaphor.

And the desktop metaphor becomes much less adequate when users venture off the desktop, onto a local area network or the Internet.

BeOS observed the desktop metaphor more strictly than many systems.

Amiga terminology for its desktop metaphor was taken directly from workshop jargon.

Granted, we are used to the desktop metaphor.

But due to complaints, the next version (Windows 2.0) followed the desktop metaphor.

It actually works quite well and there aren't as many desktop metaphors as you might suggest.

The developers of the desktop metaphor changed the face of personal computing.

Despite the site's brief demo, the idea seems hard to pin down, but the ambition is to leave behind the material world of the desktop metaphor.

A desktop metaphor was used, in which files looked like pieces of paper.