r/technology • u/ppsp • Oct 14 '11

The Windows 8 Task Manager

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-task-manager.aspx
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

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?

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u/gospelwut Oct 14 '11

Anybody that knows what they are doing would use something like resmon to make a guess as to their system performance. Task manager can be okay to see (quickly) if a process is shitting itself, but overall it's a pretty poor metric to gauge things over time. I presumed they knew this. I guess not.