How can I send a window to the end of the Alt-Tab list in Windows 8?

Up until upgrading to Windows 8, I would use Alt+Esc to make a window go to the end of the Alt-Tab list, and "get out of the way." For example, if my Alt+Tab list looks like:

A B C D E

With A as the active window, hitting Alt+Esc will make it into:

B C D E A

With B active, and Alt+Tabing once will end with window C:

C B D E A

Ever since I got Windows 8, this isn't working any more –– hitting Alt+Esc hides the active window, but Alt+Tab will get it right back.

Why is that? Is there a way to get it back?

From Wikipedia's Alt-Tab :

When the Alt+Tab task switcher window is not active, Alt+Esc places the active window at the bottom of the Z-order. In Windows 8 the behavior has changed, the window will be moved level down the Z-order instead of going to the end.

If you want Windows 8's Alt-Esc to work as it used to work in Windows 7, the answer is negative - there is no information whether this is possible. Maybe in the future something will come up, but not now.

If you don't need a touch screen and you want your computer to behave like it did in Windows 7, the only solution is to go back to Windows 7.

This app does the job and is a little configurable:

vistaswitcher

I would like to speak with the Microsoft genius who decided to eliminate the ALT+ESC functionality.