But again, on my desktop PC, why would I want to have this app be full screen? One of the best Metro apps on Windows 8 is the ESPN app. Now I can keep it in a little window if I want and click on it if I want to do something. But the Windows 8 music app does – unless you have ModernMix. Every time I want to mess with my play list or whatever, I don’t expect to have to switch to a big full screen app to do this. This brings me to the second window: The music app. The whole point of watching something on a PC is that you can have it in a window while you do other stuff. If I want to watch Netflix full screen, I’ll watch it on my TV. But without ModernMix, this has to run full-screen. There’s a really good Metro version of Netflix. Let me show you, in pictures, what this means: They even show up on the taskbar which means you can pin them for easier later launch. If you want to grab it right now you can at Once ModernMix is installed, all those Metro apps can run windows on the desktop. If you have a 20 inch monitor (or larger) you know how absurd it is for many of these apps to be running full-screen. In a nutshell: Modern apps (often called Metro or RT apps) on Windows 8 are forced to run full-screen no matter what. Stardock released the first BETA of ModernMix today.
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