I've been wondering how the Metro design is going to shift fashion in web design. The plain blocks of colour, cropped text to hint at more to find, dynamic panels showing key ideas and information, and absence of 3D effects, bevels, shiny stuff ('chrome') etc is what it is about. Here are three articles which talk about these ideas:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/web-des...ment-10025421/
http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/d...ed-skeuomorphs

and this one (whilst about mobile phones) has some thoughts of relevance to general web design:
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/i...e-android.html