Working with Notifications
If you’re a Windows old-timer, then you’re certainly all too familiar with the notification area in the taskbar, which displays banners whenever Windows or an application has information for you. Those notifications are still available in the Desktop app, but now they only work for desktop programs. Windows 8 and all Windows 8 apps use a new notification system. For example, you might add an appointment to the Calendar app and ask the app to remind you about it, and that reminder appears as a notification. Similarly, someone might send you a text message, and the Messaging app displays the text as a notification.
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