The interface has more than a passing resemblance to the Metro look and feel of Windows Phone 7. The Start screen, in particular, with its grid arrangement of live tiles, is very much a scaled up version of the phone interface. Task switching is performed by swiping in from the side; tasks can also be snapped to the side of the screen for a multitasking view.
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.
