#Metro live tiles how to#
If you download it and end up using the template I’d love to here what you did with it & suggestions for improvements are always welcome. Possible Duplicate: Unable to create live tile inside Windows 8 application is it possible to use live tiles inside a page I know how to configure tiles. The black background can be a bit fun bit with a little bit of the “background removal” tool you can get diagrams or pictures to look pretty good: There is a default animation for the items on the page & for transitions between slides that act in a “metro ish” way – using the default available movements… The section header slides also animate kind of like a “live tile” flipping over but it’s far from perfect (you need to use a bit of imagination). In an interview it was explained that different Microsoft divisions use each others products, and the extension of Metro was not a company-wide approach but instead teams such as Xbox liking Metro and adapting it for its own products. I thought it might be of interest to a few other people so you can download it here for use in your own presentations… Flat colored 'live tiles' were introduced into the design language during the early Windows Phones studies.
![metro live tiles metro live tiles](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CGsWuwgkvcU/UwNABKDp87I/AAAAAAAAAe0/LIa_eYezkoQ/s1600/MetroSidebar1.png)
For two of the community Lync talks ( NxtGenUG & NEBytes) I’d given recently I made myself a Metro inspired PowerPoint template.