ModernMix runs Modern apps on the Windows 8 desktop

March 12, 2013

A Michigan developer last week started selling a $5 utility that lets Windows 8 customers shun the new Modern UI by running apps on the classic desktop. Stardock, best known to Windows 8 users for Start8, software that restores the Start button and menu, shipped a beta of ModernMix on March 6. As it did with Start8, Stardock priced the ModernMix beta at $5 and promised buyers the final software when it's released later this month or in early April. Once installed, ModernMix lets Windows 8 users run Modern apps--still labeled "Metro" by most outside Microsoft--within a Win32 frame on the desktop, eliminating the need to switch from the familiar Windows 7-style user interface (UI) to the newer, and to many, the jarring tile-based UI of the Janus-like OS. Because the Modern apps run inside a traditional desktop window, they can be resized, which is impossible on the Modern UI, where every app defaults to full-screen, and at best can share the display with only one other app. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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