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Comment by Karunamon | Hacker News Reader

I guess I don't get the point of the faux-censorship here. Anyone care to help a clueless newbie out?

This is an article about Microsoft's "Metro" design language, so named until a couple of weeks ago, when a large Microsoft retail partner (Metro AG) asked Microsoft to rename it.

It has since been renamed "Windows 8-style UI".

I hoped this post meant it had been renamed "M". "M-style" flows off the tongue far easier than "Windows-8-style-UI"..

While this has been in the news everywhere, Microsoft itself hasn't mentioned anything about this. In fact, they still use 'Metro' on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/apps and their various Windows 8-related blogs.

They should rename it "Malkovich":

   Malkovich saw what I was working on and showed it to   
   Malkovich Malkovich (Art Director who worked with 
   Malkovich Malkovich), and he said something like "that's 
   Malkovich!"

The censorship is a fun idea, but it made the article difficult to read, along with random images splattered everywhere.

Yeah, my brain found it unreadable.

I found it much easier to read after `$('font').css('background','transparent')`, for what it's worth.

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