i feel like microsoft shouldn't have tried to include the classic/desktop mode. Metro is cool, commit to it. re-work office to exist solely in the metro interface, add a launcher to make AAA PC gaming titles compatible with metro. then, refuse to continue selling windows 7 to laptop OEMs. enterprise is going to hate metro anyways, keep selling win7 to them, but commit to metro as the way forward for consumers.
Microsoft's shareholders would have had a fit if they marginialized the enterprise in this way. Let's face it, right now all of Microsoft's current future revenue is coming from there. The shareholders wouldn't allow them to go all-in against Apple in the consumer space right now.
I expect what you're looking for will be Windows 10, once enterprises have had time to get used to Metro.
This would be a great way to kill windows. Microsoft Office, IDEs, Photoshop, etc. simply wouldn't work as well in metro. Having separate windows allows drag and drop between applications and is a huge boost to productivity. Not to mention you can have several windows open and tiled appropriately so you aren't stuck in fullscreen mode all the time.
