Must have metro / windows 8 apps?

[slackerinabox]

Just got my first touch based windows 8 laptop (mostly osx household) and want to show off to the mrs What are some good apps out there? The stores a bit of a mess honestly.

 

[Arkaign]

crickets!

 

[sathyan]

Agreed the store is a mess.
These are some metro apps I like:
News - magazine-style news app
Travel
MediaMonkey - I like this better than XBOX Music for playing media off my NAS/local
Weather
Evernote
Microsoft OneNote MX
Fresh Paint would be fun on a touch device
Google Search - it is more than search, really a gateway to many Google web properties
NextGen Reader - replacement for Google Reader

Many of the usual mobile touch apps are there: Engadget, Allrecipes, Vevo, comixology, skype, twitter, audible, netflix, hulu plus, mlb.tv, angry birds, espn, kindle, nook, tunein radio, Lastpass, Skype, Photoshop express, Dropbox, Skydrive, Rhapsody, CNN, WSJ, USA today, Discovery channel, Crackle, Wikipedia

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

For games, Skulls of the Shogun was worth the purchase as I got it half off. I can't complain about Solitaire... other than the lack of multiplayer.

Netflix, OneNote, Weather, Mail, and NBC News cover apps. I also have Cocktail Flow just because of how beautiful I think it is.

Speaking of beauty, that's one place where the Store fails at times. Many developers/designers don't know how to work with the design language just yet and many apps suffer, such as MediaMonkey. There are a lot of good looking apps on the Store but the uglier ones are very ugly.

Store still needs a good BBC app and a decent editor (with syntax highlighting, comments, sftp, and a preview browser for HTML/CSS - though maybe I'm asking too much).

Edit:
No preview or sftp but has highlighting. As Store gets better prospects of Surface 2 / Surface Pro 2 purchase increase...