The Verge posted on January 31 what author Tom Warren concedes is a rumor — at least at this point — about Office 15 not being a “Metro style” app/suite, but, instead, incorporating some Metro elements to varying degrees in different Office apps.

Whether Microsoft would make Office 15 a Metro application is something Microsoft watchers, partners and customers have been wondering about for more than a year. Metro — in case you need a refresher — is a design language and style that Microsoft is using in a number of its products, from Windows Phone to Windows 8. Metro-style apps, in Windows 8 parlance, are “modern, immersive” apps which are developed using the WinRT Windows runtime that was introduced with Windows 8.