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Yes. Add myself to that count. I am getting this as a gift to someone.

@kriskdf:  Hi Kris, I noticed this on bing.com/maps and on Nokia Lumia 900 windows phone at a local AT&T store in Dallas, Texas. Hope this helps.

 When searching for a business on an area of a map, Bing/Nokia Maps seems to zoom out all the way to the City Level and show the businesses matching the search criteria on the zoomed out map. Why not just show the businesses in the area I am looking at. Zooming out to the city level is extremely annoying. At the minimum you loose your point of reference and at the worst you may not even see the current location point hidden behind all the bubble indicators of  your search criteria. 

Zoom out to a certain extent (enough to show top 3 matches) only if the current area I am looking at is too small such that it doesn't contain even one match.

I agree that the List view on the side could contain full exhaustive matches.

Well, a unified notifications tile could be the first tile and I am assuming i can size it to my liking.

I visited the pop-up store at the mall over the weekend. One thing I didn't understand is, if a live tile is getting updated, does it mean I need to open it and then the animation stops ( when I go back to the main screen) ? 

What if the tile that is getting a new notification is outside of the initial screen ? if I never scroll down (or don't scroll down often ) then I miss a notification ?

No idea so far on the Windows 8 API but is there such an isolation across apps that one app cannot capture the notifications of other apps ?

I can make an wild guess here that after seeing many live tiles changing so rapidly, it could get a bit distracting. A single notifications app makes a lot of sense. A simple notification list and launch the app..... API doesn't allow for this ?

Austrian school lays the majority of the blame on the Government.

People, people... I see a whole lot of argument going with nary an idea on how the current banking problem has come about.

Those of us who subscribe to the Austrian school of economics, have predicted this (Ron Paul, Peter schiff, etcetra). 

In fact, in 2001 ( that's right...not a misprint), Ron Paul gave his excellent predictions in his address to the US Congress. In that speech, he predicted the coming trajectory of interest rates, housing prices, derivatives, commodities, GSEs, etcetra.   All of speeches on the house floor are part of the congressional record and can be accessed on www.house.gov.

By the way, his speeches are not some vague utterances that other economically challenged pundits ( Krugman and other such assorteds) make from time to time. But rather, his speeches are detailed logical explanations of how and why of things.

@JohnAskew: LOL!

@blowdart: I am totally cool with Live tiles and whatnot. The idea of tiles showing the live content is really unique to Metro and I like it.  I just want the background wallpaper to be other than as if somebody dropped a bucket of solid color on the floor. Same with the live tile background.

@Harlequin: Well, I am not talking about just the look of my own windows 8 app. I am talking about the entire desktop. I want my own background wallpaper and the tiles to have a 3D look or Custom shapes.