The results of Microsoft's innovation

As far as I am concerned, , my most common is Skype, mail, and the Windows Store. For to use this style of application on the desktop, I am not a nuisance but not a habit, and there are not many excellent applications. On the contrary, my liking to the full screen Start menu is very big, the big icon and the color block is more intuitive than the original row's small title Start menu. This problem still exists in use, and Windows Store applications are difficult to collaborate with. By the logic of Windows 8, full screen applications can only be attached to the left or right, and the maximum number of applications that appear at the same time on the screen is very limited in many scenarios.

Stardock launched an application called Modernmix that seems to solve the problem.

This app enables Windows Store-style Full-screen applications to run on a regular desktop in a window. Modernmix can set up a variety of scenarios, such as setting up a Windows Store style application from the Start menu or desktop separately to show what form, window, or full screen can be. You can also display a small control in the upper-right corner of the Windows Store application to toggle state at any time. You can also turn off the flip animation that occurs when Windows Store application is turned on to reduce the sense of Shong in window mode.

After use, found a few minor problems. After a Windows Store application is windowed, it appears in the list of programs that are listed on the left side of the screen, but it still has to be manually closed in the left-hand list after clicking the traditional Close button on the top right corner of the window and dropping the app. It was just too much for me to suffer from the late stage of "kill process obsessive-compulsive disorder". In addition, after installing Modernmix, click on the top left corner of the screen to quickly switch the application of the animation will also disappear.

But in general, being able to windowing does solve some problems, such as working with multiple applications, such as making up for some of the traditional desktop and full-screen style of fragmentation.

But it seems a little superfluous.

When Windows 8 was launched, the so-called "Metro style" attracted a wide range of grievances, especially the stigma of fragmentation. Experience, in Windows Store applications, since Windows 8 was released to January this year, although the number of applications has grown rapidly to 40,000 balances, growth has declined markedly. And, the number of boutique applications, and a few so-called boutique applications but there is no special bright spot, and even less functional than desktop version, such as Evernote. A few days ago, ZDNet wrote "Five big reasons to tell you that Windows 8 has failed," the Metro/modern evaluation as "ugly and useless", ranked top five reasons. And our previous article also reported that the Windows 8 growth was weak and far less popular than Windows 7.

Look back Modernmix This application, the development of its Stardock also produced a replacement for the Windows 8 Start menu Start8. While users desperately want to go back to the Windows 7 experience, excluding the "Metro/modern" that users want to flee, and the evolution of Windows 8 in desktop experience, it's no wonder that Windows 8 is so unpopular.

It is rumored that the upgraded version of Windows Blue, which is being developed, directly provides the option of Windows Store application windowing, and Microsoft itself realizes that the innovation of full screen application has actually failed?