Microsoft, please give us OnePress

Your Modern Design (aka Metro) works particulary well for reading and navigating news and magazines apps. So why not create a publishing tool so that everyone can publish the modern way? 

Love it or hate it Metro is a well thought out design language. If you’re open minded and are willing to spend a little bit of time to figure out Windows 8 you’re know what I mean. Give it a week and you’ll forget about the Start Menu too.

Windows Phone 8 is perhaps a purer experience of this idea. Apps like Australia’s The Age and the WPCentral are fine examples of how effective it’s simplicty, readability and navigation are.

So, as far as publication of news and magazines go, Microsoft’s format works well. Wouldn’t it be good, then, if they built an app, or rather, an eco-system of apps accessbile across platforms and devices, to allow anyone to publish the same way?

Not the WordPress or Tumblr models where interfaces and functions can be skinned, expanded and hacked into any form, but a system that follows strict design and usability patterns. With a similar discipline as Medium, I guess, butmulti-faceted.

From the reader’s perspective, it would have to be as second nature as reading a newspaper. Itself a format that has worked for decades.

Could this be the killer app Microsoft need? An app which is both an effective publication tool as well as a source of great content (and greatly extending the content they already offer via their portals). And the pro version plugging nicely into Office.