... ignoring the fact that you can have multiple metro apps on screen just like with any other tiling window manager.
i think there's a good argument that manually micro-managing the sizes and positions of overlapping windows (some of which can additionally be application or system modal) is a waste of time and gives few benefits.
whilst the metro apps are all pretty cut down at the moment - and there's a lot of work to do before it can viably replace the old desktop - i have no real issue with this as the direction of progress.
After years of windows bashing, Microsoft seems is trying to correct it's security nightmare past.
Security is a higher priority than functionality right now (from observation). Until they can get a way to secure windows apps without hampering functionality, we will always have both desktop and metro mode living together.
i think there's a good argument that manually micro-managing the sizes and positions of overlapping windows (some of which can additionally be application or system modal) is a waste of time and gives few benefits.
whilst the metro apps are all pretty cut down at the moment - and there's a lot of work to do before it can viably replace the old desktop - i have no real issue with this as the direction of progress.