We've spent the last few days at Microsoft's offices in Reading going through app development within Windows 8 Metro (recently announced at BUILD). This is all part of the programme now we are confirmed as Windows 8 Build Partners.

In a nutshell, the days were made up of presentations and development labs, giving us the opportunity to start building simple apps that show off different features. We were also introduced to the language of Metro.

App developers are going to live in a world of promises, chromeless windows, content first and charms - pre-packaged extensions into the OS you can use for sharing, search etc. Charms in particularly allow developers to add functionality, with very little code and packaged with the standard Metro UI. Meaning happy users as well, as they'll now have a consistent experience across applications.