A Windows 8 Metro-style, news aggregator and offline reader.

Discourse is available for free in the Windows Store of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

Click here to view and install it.

Readable on or offline

All you need to do is launch Discourse from its tile on the Windows 8 start screen, it will sync the full content of your chosen news sections ready to be read at your leisure.

Sections organize your news

You start with a few sections to get you going. Each section is populated from some of the best known news feeds available. You can, of course, add or remove whole sections, add or remove news sources in those sections and also provide your own RSS or Atom feeds.

No matter how you choose to arrange things you will be able to catch up on all your news in a clear, readable form.

Browsable news summary with simple navigation

Clicking or tapping on a section will show you Dicourse's summary of the news articles within it. You can navigate forward and backwards between the summary pages in a number of ways:

• Pan left or right using a swipe touch gesture (on a touch enabled machine!)
• Click on the left or right "navigation buttons" to the middle left and right of each page
• Use the Page Up and Page Down, or Left and Right arrow keys on the keyboard
• Use the 'block' indicator at the bottom of the page to jump to a specific page (coming soon!)
• Use the mouse wheel to scroll (coming soon!)

Each article presents a summary of the full article in a vertically scrollable column.

The full detail

Clicking or tapping on an article column will take you to the full article. Pan or scroll horizontally as you read.

Save a story to read later

Use the "App Bar" on each page for more options. Use "Save Story" to instruct Discourse to remember an article in the special "Saved Stories" section for easy access and reading later.