Avast: Microsoft “actively discouraging” Windows 8 Metro version April 6, 2012 by admin Tweet Avast, the maker of the popular free antivirus software, has told Neowin that Microsoft is “actively discouraging” them from developing a Metro UI version of the software for Windows 8. Read more… Neowin Related Posts:Microsoft Defender, Avast, AVG turned against…UK's CMA provisionally clears NortonLifeLock's…Avast launches Ransomware Shield to fight growing…Microsoft Defender gets outperformed easily by…Microsoft actively investigating slow Windows 11…