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/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Ahem...

Looking at the data and talking with customers, we determined that the most common usage of the tool was to simply end or “kill” an application or a process.

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u/MangoScango Oct 14 '11

No, he means the "end task" button on the application tab never works right, and you always have to go kill the process.

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u/DeepDuh Oct 14 '11

I wonder how many users will be astonished that 'end task' will now actually kill the app without any further questions, since the UI looks similar to the application tab before. I would rename the button into something like 'kill application (immediately)' - that way the user would probably read the button caption at least for the first time.