Windows 8 unique "desktop" to make an "app" out of a program

Question

Sorry I didn't know how to ask this question without labelling it "Windows 8 multiple desktops" Which brings up a whole bunch of people trying to do something else.

I like the "swype" alt-tab alternative in windows 8, but that only tabs between "apps", not programs running within the "desktop" app.

Google Chrome lets you run it either in desktop mode or "windows 8 mode" So that's nice, but what about all the other programs in the world? (Many of which support a very nice full-screen mode).

What I want is either a way to:

• Force any full-screen windows program to act like a windows 8 "app", or
• Instantiate multiple "desktop" apps, in which I can full-screen various programs. Ideally even rename them from "desktop" to whatever that app is.

Hopefully this can be done!

Answer 1

This cannot be done.

The classical desktop and the modern apps are two separate worlds.

• Classical desktop applications are those that (can) run on previous versions of Windows.
• Modern apps are the new thing in Windows 8, they didn't exist before. These applications have new API to the system and are run in a more restrictive environment than regular (or classic) desktop applications.
  _{The only exception is made to browsers which can use the full Windows API even in modern interface, and can be run as either desktop or modern mode.}

You cannot start multiple desktop "apps" because it's not really an application, it's just the "legacy" Windows desktop presented as a tile.