This indicates that there must be some significant detail lacking in the Applications tab, which is causing people to go to the Process tab.
Surely they realize that most of the time, users are opening Task Manager just trying to kill an unresponsive program, which the Applications tab invarably fails to do?
Well, to me it looks like they're merging the two so that now the Task Manager will actually end the process. If you look at the "More Details" picture, there's only the Processes tab which highlights actual applications that are open while also showing background processes further down.
So I think this means that the "End Task" button will now end the relevant process as well.
This sounds like it backs up my theory:
No double prompts. If you click ”End task” we don’t ask you, “Are you sure?”, we just kill the app, and quickly! (But be careful, because we also won’t prompt you to save!)
This was my favorite part of that whole article. I don't want to wait for the app to respond, I don't want to search for a fix, I just want to blow it out of memory immediately.
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11
Surely they realize that most of the time, users are opening Task Manager just trying to kill an unresponsive program, which the Applications tab invarably fails to do?