It seems to me that moving ActiveTiles from a visual UI to an auditory format may be very useful for providing point Gist updates, and fast systems overview status information Now, as you may know my thing is auditory glancing - and in the ‘mainstream’ glance interfaces. Interfaces that give you the ‘gist’ of something but not directly a summary of the content; an interface which enable you to answer the question ‘Is this useful (to me)?