Yes it does - you just need to try harder

Yeah, main problem is the machine I was trying it on has a locked bios (work machine y'see) so if the relevant options aren't switched on, nothing I can do about it.

Jon

My lowest resolution screen is my laptop (1920x1080), which is too big to run most apps sensibly in full screen mode.

For a tablet or phone, it works, but for a proper desktop, where I need to do work, it just doesn't work. I generally have 2 - 3 "reference" windows open, plus my "work" window, where I turn the reference material into a finished document. If it is full screen, I'd be switching back and forth between apps every couple of seconds! Way to kill productivity.

For browing a forum or social network or somebody who works in one or 2 LoB apps all day long, Metro might work, but for developers and information workers, it seems to be a non-starter.

Still waiting for the download, my laptop went to sleep and broke the connection...

Oddly, I don't tend to use full screen that way. If you think about it, the Lion 'full screen' button is also a 'put this on a new virtual desktop' button, so that's what I tend to use it for. If, for example, I've got iTunes playing in the background, I put it in full screen then go back to what I'm doing and it's out of the way on a separate 'screen'.

You can of course do that by pulling up mission control, creating a new desktop and dragging the iTunes window to that desktop but sending it full screen then swiping back to your main desktop is actually quite a lot quicker.

Jon

+1. My Mail is full screen on it's own workspace, while everything else is a jumble of overlapping windows on my main desktop.