Can a Metro application be aware of other apps?

Question

Is there any way of listing all the running metro applications from a metro app? I'm thinking about a metro Task Manager.

Answer 1

Metro applications' awareness of each other is limited to the Sharing contracts available through the Share charm. Doing something like a Task Manager would require using something like a dashboard approach with the data pulled from a service running on the Desktop side, which would probably be impractical.

Answer 2

I don't think so. Metro Apps run in a sandbox, like in Windows Phone.