tile-based interface
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tile-based interface
A user interface that places icons in rows and columns with no space in between, exemplified by Windows Phone and Windows 8 Metro. Although iPhones and Androids display rows of icons, the icons have too much space around them to be called tiles. See tile, Windows 8 and Windows phone.
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| Windows Phone (top) and Windows 8 featured tile-based interfaces, a dramatic change from Windows Mobile and Windows 7. |
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It will run Windows 8.1 RT, meaning it shares the
tile-based interface of the phone software, but can run various apps designed for Windows tablets.
Pogue, The New York Times tech columnist, introduces Microsoft's latest iteration of Windows as two operating systems in one: a refined version of Windows 7, plus a colorful new touchscreen
tile-based interface (perhaps transitional to an all touchscreen future).
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